Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
Alongside Sanjana Govindarajan (University of Groningen) and Kerri Woods (University of Leeds), our centre member Megan Blomflied (University of Sheffield) is organizing a workshop at the annual MANCEPT (Manchester Centre for Political Theory) conference - entitled Epistemic Injustice in Asylum Policy and Practice. With its focus on "forms of epistemic injustice in state asylum policy …
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To honor the life and work of philosopher María Cristina Lugones (1944-2020) the Editorial Team of the feminist-philosophy journal Hypatia has curated an online issue featuring many of Lugones' key work which were previously published in Hypatia. This comes alongside a translated tribute honoring her life and contributions. From the tribute: "Until her death in …
The authors of several chapters from the recently published book "An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind" (2020), edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, wrote some blog posts on their contributions for The Brains Blog! A post co-authored by our centre-co-director Jules Holroyd, together with Kathy Puddifoot, has been published …
The Center for Engaged Philosophy is nothing without its members. In the following, we want to draw your attention to some selected things our members have been up to over the course of the last academic year – engaged in both practical and theoretical ways! 🙂 Earlier this year, center member Megan Blomfield participated in …
The Centre for Engaged Philosophy and the Crick Centre have the pleasure to invite you to a talk by Sebastiano Moruzzi (University of Bologna): When? Wednesday the 29th of May, 11am to 12:30pmWhere? ICOSS Conference Room Abstract: The term ‘post-truth’ has been widely used in recent years to characterise a broad epistemic trend in which persons …
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