David Tinson

A person's ability to communicate is not dependent on the mastery of certain skills, but on our ability to listen. www.TheSensoryProjects.co.uk

14.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 88    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1

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We're delighted to announce that Professor @grantmacaskill.bsky.social will be joining the Department in September as our new Lightfoot Professor of Divinity.

Find out more on the appointment here 👉https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/05/lightfoot-professor-of-divinity-appointment/

23.05.2025 11:52 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3

This Is How We Let Abuse Thrive Wade Mullen uncovers the strategies that perpetrators—and their churches—use to silence victims.

How do these systems end up enabling perpetrators while silencing victims? And—more importantly—how do so many of us let it happen, especially within the church?

21.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Why RFK Jr. Doesn't See the Image of God In Autistic People The Secretary of Health and Human Services looks at autistic people and only sees what they can't do, not who they were created to be.

"In autistic people, as in every member of the human species, God is pleased to dwell."

03.05.2025 14:01 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

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"Even if [RFKJr] were not clearly committed to pushing dangerous & debunked pseudoscience about vaccines, it is simply impossible that actual research into a supposed environmental cause of autism could be completed by Sept–real science does not move that quickly, bc real science cares about truth."

11.04.2025 23:01 — 👍 67    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1

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The cover for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, featuring a detail from an impressionist painting of a busy Paris Boulevard by day by Camille Pissaro.

Upcoming handbook chapter offering an overview of the philosophical debate about epistemic injustice kicked up by Miranda Fricker's work, with an eye towards more sharply delineating the target phenomena from her particular theoretical and terminological choices: philpapers.org/rec/MCGEIP-5

12.11.2024 21:13 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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19.11.2024 09:55 — 👍 51    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 3