Name: Navigating Truth and Doubt
Start: 2025-05-21T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-21T21:00:00
Location: Ducks Coffee Shop

What is the truth, really? Can we define it? What is the best way to approach it? And is knowledge really in crisis? These questions and more will be discussed this evening.

This event is co-organized by Knowledge in Crisis, a research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the Clusters of Excellence programme (10.55776/COE3)

Truth and Falsehood

Marian David (Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz)

Question: “What is truth?” Typical reactions: “There is no truth. Truth is relative. Truth is subjective. No one can know it.” These popular slogans should actually seem quite over the top, if we weren't used to them by now. How is it that such apparently radical views are so popular with the public? Do those who spout such slogans really mean what they are saying? Do they really?

The Ethics of Doubt or: Don’t Let Your Mind Be So Open That Your Brain Falls Out

Emmanuela Carta and Francesco Praolini (Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Graz and KU Leuven)

“Keep an open mind!” “Avoid jumping to conclusions!” Sure—but can those ever be mistakes? Philosophers have largely ignored this question, focusing instead on mistaken belief. Drawing on cases from vaccine hesitancy to mistrust of sexual assault survivors, we argue that suspending judgment can be just as wrong.

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