A letter in defence of science, published in New Zealand Listener in July, was signed by seven professors from the University of Auckland. Emeritus Professor Robert Nola, one of the signatories, specialises in the philosophy of science. But the Royal Society of New Zealand is investigating him over what it claims are “misguided” views regarding Māori knowledge. Graham Adams reports.
Professor Robert Nola’s bread and butter is analysing what makes science science. This has been his focus for more than 50 years. Yet, he is facing a disciplinary hearing by the Royal Society for expressing his views on science and mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge).
Nola was one of seven eminent professors from the University of Auckland who, in a letter to New Zealand Listener in July, criticised plans to include mātauranga Māori in the school science curriculum and to give it equal standing with “Western/ Pakeha epistemologies”…
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