Epistemic regimes and regime change in psyche and culture: A conversation about epistemic trust

In today’s bewildering world, one person’s truth is another’s fake news. Contemporary commentators have expressed considerable unease about the breakdown of the ‘constitution of knowledge’ (Rauch, 2018): an unwritten consensus not about what is true but about how to establish truth. Profound social inequalities and political alienation have excluded many groups from citizenship of the epistemic regime (Brooks, 2020); many now turn to alternative sources of knowledge disseminated by agents whose motives are opaque. 
 
In this situation, how can we distinguish trust from credulity, and vigilance from hypervigilance, both in ourselves and in others, and how can we remain open to discovery and necessary change? How can developmental science and psychoanalysis help us with this?  
 
In this webinar Peter Fonagy, Patrick Luyten and Chloe Campbell will approach these questions via a dialogue on the development of the human capacity for epistemic trust. There will be ample time for exchange with the audience and you are warmly invited to join in the conversation.