Peritia Public Lecture series
PERITIA Public Lectures
[Un]Truths: Trust in an Age of Disinformation
Hosted by:
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
and
American University of Armenia Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs
Series 2
September 21 - November 16 2021. All lectures will be delivered online via Zoom, Tuesdays, 4-5 pm Dublin / London Time
(opens in a new window)Details of how to attend these lectures here
Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm University) "What is Knowledge Resistance?" September 21 (postponed)
(opens in a new window)https://www2.philosophy.su.se/wikforss/
Maya J. Goldenberg (University of Guelph) "A War on Science? The Death of Expertise? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy" October 5
(opens in a new window)https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/maya-j-goldenberg
Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) "Technology and Democracy - Cognitive Pressure Points and Solutions" Octber 19
(opens in a new window)https://www.cogsciwa.com/
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) "Why is climate action so hard?" November 2
(opens in a new window)https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/philip-kitcher
Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School) TBA November 16
(opens in a new window)https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sheila-jasanoff
Series 1
April 6 - June 1 2021
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard) "Trust in Science" April 6, (opens in a new window)https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes
Quassim Cassam ( Warwick University) "Misunderstanding Conspiracy Theories". April 20, (opens in a new window)https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/cassam/
Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut) "The Democratic Value of Truth". May 4, (opens in a new window)https://michael-lynch.philosophy.uconn.edu/#
Heather Douglas (Michigan State University) on "Trustworthy Science". May 18, (opens in a new window)https://philosophy.msu.edu/faculty-staff/heather-douglas/
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod) "Trust vs. Argument", June 1, (opens in a new window)http://www.institutnicod.org/membres/membres-statutaires/sperber-dan/?lang=en