Gerry Dunne teaches philosophy of education in Marino Institute of Education and is also a research fellow in Trinity College Dublin. He works primarily in the area of higher education and social epistemology. Some of his previous work has focused on epistemic exploitation, empathy, reasons, decolonising HE, reductionist Know-how, epistemic silos, satisficing, edutainment and epistemic vices. To this end his research is broadly interdisciplinary, and he welcomes opportunities to work with like-minded scholars.
To read his thoughts on charging others with epistemic vice, see here.
To learn more about the harms of chasing unattainable pedagogical exemplars on social media, see here.
OUR LAST SPEAKER
Neil Levy - January 9th - 1 PM ET
Neil Levy is professor of philosophy at Macquarie University (Sydney) and a senior research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Institute, University of Oxford. He is a very wide ranging philosopher; recently he has focused largely on social epistemology. He is the author of Bad Beliefs (Oxford UP, 2021) and the forthcoming How we Govern our Minds Through Others, with Adam Carter (MIT Press).
To read his thoughts on how it can be that people come to believe very strange things, see here.