November 21-23 at Stockholm University, Aula Magna, a cross-disciplinary conference organized by the research program Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences and Cures, featuring talks by international scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology,… Read More »Conference on Perspectives on Knowledge Resistance
‘Nobody’s Fool. Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It’ – a new book by Christopher Chabris (member of the KR research team) and Dan Simons… Read More »‘Nobody’s Fool’ – a new book by Chabris and Simons on the science of deception, listen to them in the podcast easy prey
Åsa Wikforss participated in the conference Truth, Trust and Hope, held in Washington DC on May 24-26. The conference was organized by The Nobel Foundation in collaboration with The National… Read More »Åsa Wikforss participated in the conference Truth, Trust and Hope, held in Washington DC on May 24-26
Åsa Wikforss was interviewed in the podcast ‘In Reality’ in the episode ‘why are some beliefs so maddeningly resistant to evidence’. Listen to the conversation about her project Knowledge Resistance… Read More »Why are some beliefs so maddeningly resistant to evidence – Wikforss in the podcast ‘In Reality’ about Knowledge Resistance
On April 24-25 all core researchers met at Vår Gård, Saltsjöbaden for a two-day workshop on how to counteract knowledge resistance and strengthen the resilience to mis- and disinformation. Jesper… Read More »Workshop on cures and debunking
The conference on current threats to public discourse, freedom of speech, and democracy in decline was held 22 March at the Swedish Academy, the Grand Hall of the Stock Exchange… Read More »The Conference: Thought and Truth under Pressure, was held at the Swedish Academy 22 March with Wikforss as organizer
‘Science denial in the era of post-truth’. February 8, Wikforss gave a Keynote speech about knowledge as a basis for democracy at the informal meeting of competitiveness ministers responsible for… Read More »Åsa Wikforss gave a talk at the ‘informal meeting of competitiveness ministers responsible for research’
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Åsa Wikforss and Torun Lindholm Öjmyr gave a talk about Knowledge Resistance from a philosophical point of view and the underlying psychological mechanisms at the Norwegian Academy of Science… Read More »Glüer, Wikforss and Lindholm Öjmyr at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Lisa Bortolotti, one of the speakers at KR’s recent conference, has generously summarised some of the main ideas presented at the conference. Read the full post over at the philosophy… Read More »Summary of conference talks
Workshop on Significant but Inconclusive Evidence organized by the Swedish National Committee for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, the research project “Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences, and Cures” and the Institute for Futures Studies,… Read More »Workshop on Significant but Inconclusive Evidence
Apart from research publications, KR’s researchers regularly contribute research talks at conferences, workshops, etc., on a number of questions in KR’s remit – on rationality, polarisation, media use, reasoning, and… Read More »Roundup of academic talks
KR’s large, mid-project conference titled Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments was a unique cross-disciplinary event, with a diverse group of distinguished speakers, including Lisa Bortolotti, Kevin Dorst, Leor Zmigrod,… Read More »Conference Summary
