Please find here the powerpoint of our presentation for the capstone event held at the University of Connecticut on 4-5 April 2019. [ http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/changingattitudes/files/2019/04/2019-CAPD-Tanesini-Maio-Presentation_no_notes.pptx ]
6-7 November 2017, Cardiff University Political opinions in many Western-style democracies show signs of increasing polarisation. This has coincided with a change of tone in debates. Seemingly arrogant behaviours like shouting, mocking, dismissing or rudely interrupting other people during discussions seem more frequent and widespread. This two-day international conference brings…
To recap: In Part One of this series we looked at how our impulse to reduce messy situations to nice clean epistemological facts can cause us to miss what is at stake for people—the normative entanglements at issue. In Part Two, we looked at how such normative entanglements show us what is going on in
To read Part 1 of this series, click here. Let’s start simple. ‘I’m hurt.’
In an episode of The West Wing, a comment is made to the press that the fictional US President, Josiah Bartlett, is not particularly fond of green beans.[1] On the day in question, the president’s staff confront the usual mayhem of low- and high-octane problems, among them the problem of what should be done about
