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Areas of Specialisation:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philosophy and Public Policy, Health Policy, Philosophy of Science and Social Science, Bioethics.<\/p>\n

Areas of Competence:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

African Philosophy, Post-Colonial Thought.<\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(2024) with Maya J. Goldenberg. “Disagreement and Public Health.” The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. Routledge, 97-507.<\/p>\n

(2024). Science Skepticism. In: Schramme, T., Walker, M. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-94-017-8706-2_88-1<\/p>\n

(2023). Beliefs, values and emotions: An interactive approach to distrust in science. Philosophical Psychology, 37(1), 240\u2013257. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09515089.2023.2266454<\/p>\n

(2022) Epistemic Bunkers. Social Epistemology.\u00a0https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02691728.2022.2122756<\/p>\n

(2021) What Use are Real-World Cases to Philosophers? Ergo https:\/\/journals.publishing.umich.edu\/ergo\/article\/id\/1113\/<\/p>\n

(2020) On Trusting Neighbours More Than Experts: An Ebola Case Study. Frontiers in Communication Science and Environmental Communication. https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fcomm.2020.00023\/full<\/p>\n

(2020) Mono-Causal and Multi-Causal Theories of Disease: How to Think Virally and Socially about the Aetiology of AIDS. Journal of Medical Humanities. https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10912-017-9441-9<\/p>\n

(2019) (co-authored with Dr Matthew Burch) Objectivity in Science and Law: A Shared Rescue Strategy, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry<\/em> 64: 60-70. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160252718302401<\/a><\/p>\n

(2018) Moral Responsibility, Culpable Ignorance, and Suppressed Disagreement. Social Epistemology.\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02691728.2018.1512173<\/a><\/p>\n

(2017) (co-authored with Chingore-Munazvo, N; Raw, A; and Slabbert M)(Fo) Chronicles of communication and power: informed consent to sterilisation in the Namibian Supreme Court\u2019s LM judgment of 2015. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.<\/em>https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11017-017-9405-0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

(2019) Review: Immaculada de Melo-Martin and Kristen Intemann, \u2018The Fight Against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap between Scientists and the Public\u2019. British Journal of Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n

(2018) Review: John Forrester, Thinking in Cases. Metascience<\/em>. Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 221\u2013222<\/p>\n

(2015) Review: Jonathan Matheson and Rico Vitz (eds.), The Ethics of Belief, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.18 (5):1105-1106.<\/p>\n

(2011) Review: Franziska Bieri. From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberly Process: How NGOs Cleaned Up the Global Diamond Industry. Journal of African and Asian Studies pp. 439- 440<\/p>\n

Shorter Pieces:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(May 2020) Keeping Close to Home: Communities and Contagion, The Philosopher\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, pp. 91 – 95 https:\/\/www.philosophersmag.com\/essays\/212-keeping-close-to-home<\/a><\/p>\n

Blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why are so many medical staff suffering from burnout? <\/a>(with Elizabeth Barrett)<\/p>\n

Bearing Witness: What are Journalists doing in Conflict Zones?<\/a> (with Richard Stupart)<\/p>\n

How Mbeki\u2019s character and his AIDS denialism are intimately linked<\/a><\/p>\n

The international response to the Ebola outbreak has excluded Africans and their interests<\/a><\/p>\n

Media:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mistrust of science isn\u2019t always irrational<\/a><\/p>\n

Philosophical Disquisitions Interview: How to Understand COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n

Out of the Vat Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

Interview on PowerFM about Mbeki’s AIDS denialism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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