June 30, 2021
The End of Expertise?
The CIH 40th Annual Community Forum was hosted online on Friday, May 7, 2021.
We see today an increasing questioning of traditional sources or models of authority, in conjunction with issues such as climate change denial, vaccination hesitancy, and political populist movements.ÌýAre the current challenges to expertise part of a healthy public sphere, or theÌýsign of a dangerous slide towardsÌýpopulism and demagoguery?Ìý
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Invited Guest Speakers
Harry Collins, Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University.Ìý
Maya Goldenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph
Steven Sloman is Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Science at Brown Universtiy.Ìý
Moderator: Jim Brown, author, filmmaker and CBC radio host.
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