Maria Baghramian, Head of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, has won a €3 million (approximately US$3.3 million) grant for three-year research project on “the role of science in policy decision making and the conditions under which people should trust and rely on expert opinion that shapes public policy.” The project, “Policy, Expertise and... Read More
Members of the Working Group Truth, Trust and Expertise Baroness Onora O’Neill (Co-Chair) – British Academy and Royal Society Ed Noort (Co-Chair) – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Maria Baghramian – Royal Irish Academy José van Dijck- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Luke Drury – Royal Irish Academy (RIA)... Read More
From doubting the truth to putting Truth into question: Post-truth and the loss of faith in experts. With Maria Baghramian Interviewed by Dr Fabio Gironi, Institute of Philosophy, University of Potsdam for the magazine il Tascabile (see here for original Italian version: http://www.iltascabile.com/societa/la-verita-in-dubbio) Q: Every philosophical movement needs to be placed in its historical and social context. It... Read More
To mark Science Week 2017, the Council are highlighting topical questions that its funded researchers are finding answers to by lighting up the well-known Dublin City Council Building on Dame Street with a series of light projections. The light projections will be switched on from 5pm to midnight every day from Monday, 13 November to... Read More
The Royal Irish Academy is pleased to announce that Professor Maria Baghramian and Professor Luke Drury have been appointed to the ALLEA working group on ‘Truth, Trust and Expertise’. The ALLEA working group on ‘Truth, Trust and Expertise’ will commence on the 18th of October with a London meeting. The group will agree a programme of work... Read More
October 27, 2017 UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin This workshop explores philosophical perspectives on methodology and methodological diversity. What can philosophers learn from the methods of other disciplines? Is the analytic/continental divide a methodological divide? In what ways should philosophers be accountable to empirical facts? And do philosophers have genuine expertise in their own... Read More
Pictured above: UCD President Professor Andrew J. Deeks presents the Ulysses medal to Baroness Onora O’Neil; and below, Professor Maria Baghramian, UCD School of Philosophy, and Baroness O’Neill at UCD Baroness Onora O’Neill, who has dedicated her career to investigating trust and justice in public life, has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal by University College Dublin.... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times Onora O’Neill: ‘We have some very skilful faking going on’ It’s getting harder to distinguish between truth and lies but ‘people can learn to make better judgements’ about who to trust, says the Northern Irish philosopher Joe Humphreys Those opposed to Brexit, in looking for an explanation of the... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times A question of trust in science How can policy-makers discern between genuine disagreement among experts and false uncertainties raised by commercial interests? Last week’s solar eclipse generated unprecedented public interest in the skies above us. One reason was that the path of the eclipse fell across a large swathe... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times Patrick Honohan: How the banks can regain our trust Banks must be seen to be competent, reliable and acting with integrity Patrick Honohan (writing for the Irish Times) Just a few weeks ago eyebrows were raised in Central Bank circles when an archivist at the Bank of England rediscovered a long-kept... Read More