Lisa Bortolotti

Here is a list of events in 2025, divided by academic talks, events for schools, and public engagement events. Talks and lectures 13-14 November: Women in Philosophy and the Invisible Expertise. SWIP Italia, University of Pavia. 22-24 October: Epistemic injustice as the obstruction of expertise performance. Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice in Mental Illness , University of Cagliari. 7 October: Depathologising delusions and conspiracy theories . ISPS-US Webinar. 27-29 August: Who is responsible and for what? Keynote talk in Moral Philosophy,  Minds and Worlds, 16th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy , Turin, Italy. 25-27 August: Between Ethics and Epistemology: Epistemic Innocence and Epistemic Injustice, 7th Urbino  Summer School in Epistemology , University of Urbino Carlo Bo – Department of Pure and Applied Sciences. Urbino, Italy. 11-12 June:  Expertise and epistemic injustice  (with the Agency-in-Practice group) at the  Who ...

The resources available at The Philosophy Garden have significantly expanded in recent months, thanks to the generous support of the University of Birmingham AHRC Impact Acceleration Account. In particular, new videos address issues surrounding disagreement and the difficulty and importance of trusting reliable sources and being socially connected in order to gain the information we need and achieve our most basic goals. These videos can be conversation starters, prompting reflection and discussion, and introducing some interesting concepts in concrete and engaging ways. We have been using them with primary school children, from age 7, and with secondary school students and sixth-formers as well. We use them in class with our undergraduate and Masters students to test intuitions and contextualise problems.  On the site, there are recommendations for readings, games young people can play online to challenge themselves, a video library, and handouts, worksheets, and slides for teach...

This year, World Philosophy Day was for me an opportunity to bring to young people some philosophical reflections on how we make decisions, arrive at explanations, and interact with each other in challenging contexts. In the morning I visited a primary school and talked to year 5 and 6 students about how we seek an explanation when something unexpected happens. We started by considering some definitions of philosophy and accounts of the value of philosophy ("What is philosophy for?") and then we watch two brief videos together.  The Ant and the Grasshopper  is about how we tend to blame others (especially people and institutions we don't like) when we find ourselves in a crisis; and The Fox and the Owl  is about how we often prefer to arrive at the solution of a problem by ourselves, without consulting with other people, even when they may have relevant knowledge to share. In the discussion after watching the videos, children recognised in the various animal characters di...