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Teacher
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DORATO MAURO
(syllabus)
The course will focus on the role of the methodology and epistemology of science in clarifying the problem of the relationship between science and democracy. On the one hand, as a consequence of the progressive specialization of scientific knowledge our democratic societies must rely more and more on the knowledge of the experts. On the other, especially in the still obscure areas of scientific research, the experts are often in disagreement, a fact that in the public at large creates mistrust in science, which is in any case the most reliable form of knowledge. In order to avoid that democracies degenerate into “technocracies”, where the few decide for all, the citizens must be granted the possibility for autonomous decisions. In the second part of the class, we will try to describe the process of generation and quick diffusion of false beliefs by a reconsideration of the problem of demarcating science from pseudoscience
(reference books)
Barrotta P. Scienza e democrazia, Carocci 2013
Boghossian P. Paura di conoscere, Carocci, 2006
Dorato M. Disinformazione scientifica e democrazia, La competenza dell’esperto e l’autonomia del cittadino, Cortina, 2019
Kitcher La scienza in una società democratica, Ariele, 2014
O’Connor C. Weatherall J., L’età della disinformazione. Come si diffondono false credenze. Franco Angeli, 2019
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Università Roma Tre