​Edouard Machery is a philosopher of science, working primarily on the philosophical issues raised by cognitive science and neuroscience. He is also doing empirical research on moral psychology, semantics, and folk epistemology, often with a cross-cultural focus.

Title:
Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?
Abstract:
In this talk I challenge the commonly endorsed idea that science ought to be trusted. I present and discuss evidence that in many areas of science published research is, more often than not, untrustworthy and that the mechanisms of error detection and self correction are unreliable. But if science is not to be trusted, it cannot be ignored either. I conclude by discussing what place science should have in our technologically advanced societies.

This public lecture will be presented and moderated by Carl Hoefer, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona and Scientific Director of BIAP.

​This lecture is organized by BIAP in collaboration with Ateneu Barcelonès.