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Pub Lecture: ‘Agnotology’
26 februari 2020 @ 20:00 - 23:30
De maand februari zullen we afsluiten met een traditioneel kroegcollege in Proeflokaal Faas. Zoals altijd is iedereen welkom om 20:00. Yogi Hendlin zal ons dan voorzien van een uitdagend kroegcollege. Hij heeft zelf een kort stuk geschreven over het aankomende kroegcollege: [zie onderaan]
We will close of the month February with a traditional pub lecture at Proeflokaal Faas at 20:00. Yogi Hendlin will provide us with a challenging pub lecture. He has written something himself about this upcoming lecture:
“Our age is one of denial. Denial is an epistemological problem, wrapped up in the technical aspects of ignorance, fantasy, numbing, and pretending. It can become a drug, and it can become a grand delusion. Thus, philosophers of all stripes, and historians of science, have in recent decades begun dissecting how ignorance is perpetuated throughout a system, as well as the different types of ignorance the crop up predictably. This talk will discuss this phenomenon through the lens of “agnotology,” a concept developed by Robert Proctor. Dr. Hendlin will use examples from his own research on the tobacco, chemical, food, pharmaceutical, and fossil fuel industries.”