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24.01.2022 CAVE member Neil Levy was asked how 2020 has changed his mind:

21.01.2022 Our newest affiliate member, Yves Saint James Aquino, was interviewed about vaccine hesitancy in the current pandemic.

20.01.2022 CAVE member Neil Levy is one of the experts interviewed about how Facebook's new policy on conspiracy theories will affect the conspiracy believers.

08.01.2022 CAVE member Katrina Hutchison will giving a talk today at 3.30 pm (AEST), for USyd's Philosophy Seminar Series. Knowledge, professional skills and epistemic injustice: reflections on the case of surgery Theories of epistemic injustice have potential to illuminate a variety of real-world situations where harm results from misjudging the credibility of a knower. One such context is the workplace. In this talk I explore the relevance of epistemic injustice to women surgeons’ e...xperiences of work, drawing on data from an empirical interview study. I argue that epistemic injustice understood narrowly (as Miranda Fricker has described it, focusing on testimonial and hermeneutical injustice) is only applicable to a fraction of the wrongs experienced by women surgeons in their capacity as knowers. In surgery, credibility tracks the skilled performance of the worker: arguably the knowledge that matters most to patients (and employers such as hospitals) is not the surgeon’s propositional knowledge, but their ability to enact knowledge of disease and anatomy through the successful hands-on performance of an operation. Successful performance of surgery moreover requires successful interactions with skilled colleagues (e.g. anaesthetists, nurses and technicians), while successful care of patients requires interpersonal and communication skills. The practice of surgery, then, defies simple analysis in terms of knowledge and credibility. I use the case to illuminate both strengths and limitations of the theoretical lens of epistemic injustice in applied contexts. Find the Zoom link here: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au//Week-of-Mon-202/005048.html

06.01.2022 CAVE member Jean-Philippe Deranty's latest blog post is on the impact of AI on professions.

02.01.2022 CAVE member Jane Johnson talks about how to prevent diseases passing from animals to humans.