Anything Goes? Truth and Progress in Science and Society


9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Dem
Sem
Anything Goes? Truth and Progress in Science and Society
Seminar

Tuesday, 20. August
210 minutes
English

Discuss provocative ideas and challenge conventional views on truth and scientific change in a free society. Are the ideas of truth and reason able to navigate us through the sea of alternatives and contradicting information? Is there one truth or many? Is there a crisis of knowledge? How real is reality? Can relativism explain different cultures and societies? What determines the quest for knowledge in science: “Trial and Error” or “Anything Goes”?

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Seminar Chair

Josef Mitterer

Professor University Klagenfurt
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Seminar Chair

Katharina Neges

Senior Scientist Graz University of Technology