TRUTH, TRUST, AND DEMOCRACY | Lecture Series
Organizers: Christoph Jäger und Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Begin: summer semester 2025.
In recent years populism, propaganda, manipulation, and authoritarian thinking have started to jeopardize liberal democracy and the open societies. Rational, enlightened thinking appears to be in decline. This lecture series analyzes these developments and explores explanations and strategies for addressing them. Leading scholars from various disciplines in philosophy, theology, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences, will offer in-depth discussion and analysis. The series will feature several talks each semester, often accompanied by workshops on specific topics.
Programme summer semester 2025:
- 05.03. Justin McBrayer (Fort Lewis): Fake news is bad for democracy
- 19.03. James Beebe (Buffalo): The vice of intellectual individualism
- 30.04. Stefan Kosak (München/Innsbruck): Michael Polanyi’s argument for the trustworthiness of science: a promising approach for a convincing response to the renewed scepticism about science?
- 15.05. Marietta van der Tol (Cambridge): Constitutional intolerance: The fashioning of "the other" in Europe‘s constitutional repertoires
- 28.05. Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Innsbruck): Linguistic-pragmatic deliberations on how the Cooperative Principle is levered out (or not…) in acts of (fake-)quoting
- 05.06. Massimo Faggioli (Villanova University): Far-right catholicism and Trump: The theo-political polarization in the USA and its global consequences
- 25.06. Christoph Jäger (Innsbruck): Fake authorities