A global dialogue on disinformation and the erosion of public understanding and trust in science. Speaker highlights: Maria Ressa (Nobel peace price 2021), Saul Perlmutter (Nobel Prize in Physics 2011),… Read More »Ã…sa Wikforss in the steering committee at the second Nobel Prize Summit: Truth, Trust and Hope 24-26 May
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 »Ã…sa Wikforss gave a talk at the ‘informal meeting of competitiveness ministers responsible for research’
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Ã…sa 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
Why do people believe weird things? June 30, Ã…sa Wikforss gave a talk about Resisting the facts: Is it irrational, in a Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories & Rationality.
August 23-25 at Stockholm University, Albano, all interested are welcome to attend the cross-disciplinary conference organized by the research program Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences and Cures, featuring talks by international scholars from… Read More »Conference on Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice information Environments
Now the first book from the research program has been published. It is titled Knowledge resistance in high-choice media environments and edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Ã…sa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun… Read More »New book on knowledge resistance
Wikforss was interviewed about her Knowledge Resistance program in the blog Imperfect Cognitions – a Blog on delusions, memory distortions, confabulations, biases and irrational beliefs. “Importantly, knowledge resistance involves psychological mechanisms… Read More »Interview with Ã…sa Wikforss
