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Åsa Wikforss

Åsa Wikforss is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, with a PhD from Columbia University.

Åsa Wikforss is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, with a PhD from Columbia University. She does research in the intersection of philosophy of mind, language and epistemology and has published widely in international journals. She is the leader of a large interdisciplinary research program, Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences and Cures, funded by Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, focused on the internal and external mechanisms that drive science denial.  She is the author of two popular books on the post-truth condition, Alternativa Fakta (2017) and Därför Demokrati (2021), that have been translated into many languages and received several prizes. With the publication of her popular books she has become an important voice in Sweden and beyond, with countless public appearances. Wikforss is a member of Academia Europaea, the Swedish Royal Academy of Science and the Swedish Academy.

See Åsa Wikforss at:

  • 24 May - The Global Conversation
  • Session 2 - Making Sense of Misinformation Part 1: 11:00 - 12:30
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Summit talks: technology and ethics

I’m not afraid. You’re afraid.

A thought-provoking talk by technology ethicist Tristan Harris, on the race between technology creators and our regulation on AI and our ever-increasing addiction to social media.

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Summit talks: history of disinformation

Manipulating the marginalised.

Watch researcher and scholar Rachel Kuo chart the history of how misinformation and disinformation has been used against the disenfranchised across different racial and religious groups and what we can do collectively to combat it.

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“I don’t think the truth has ever mattered more”

Watch Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, discuss the upcoming Nobel Prize Summit.

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“With the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit we will promote the scientific method, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue.”

Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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