Università Roma Tre

The Epistemology and Communication course aims to present some theoretical tools of epistemology (classical and social) and to consider their application to two spheres of communication: scientific and digital communication. The course will therefore be divided into three parts, to each of which two weeks will be devoted. The first part, Outlines of Epistemology, will address some classic themes from classical epistemology, e.g., logic and argumentative fallacies, and from social epistemology, e.g., witnessing or epistemic injustice. The second part, Communication in & of Science, will present some elements of the internal social structure of science, such as peer review and the division of cognitive labor, as well as the topic of scientific communication. Finally, the third part, Communication and Digital, will discuss issues such as the propagation of (dis)information through social networks, some ethical and welfare issues related to the architecture of certain platforms as well as the problem of deepfakes.