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This one-hour webinar will provide an introduction to key conceptualizations of epistemology – the study of how we know - in Western ethics, and discuss how these understandings of epistemology have created an ethos of ‘certainty.’ Yet, in professional practices like life care planning, ethical ambiguity – not certainty – is often the norm. The webinar will then introduce a key epistemic tool, reflexivity, to consider how we can move a professional ethos that centers on the contestable nature of ethical thought, action, and deed.

Credits: 1.0 CEs of the following credits have been applied: ABVE, CCMC, CDMS, CLCP-MSCC, CRCC, CVE-CWA-CCAA

• CE approval codes valid through December 2023.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the concepts of Ethics, Epistemology and Reflexivity and their relationship to one another and their differences
• Apply these principles to practice and consider how their own broader epistemic ethos facilitates or hinders ethical decision making.
• Describe the epistemic tool of reflexivity and how it can help navigate epistemic uncertainty.

Credits: Approval has expired, but the certificate below can be used to self-apply for 1.0 CEU.

Additional resources provided by Dr. Fitzgerald:
Margaret Urban Walker. 2007. Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics . 2^nd Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lorraine Code. 1991. What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge . Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Carol Gilligan. 1993. In a Different Voice . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kimberly Hutchings. 2013. "A Place of Greater Safety? Securing Judgement in International Ethics." In The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations , ed. by Amanda Russell Beattie and Kate Schick, 25-44. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.