Speaker Class A2
Trusting science. A humanist perspective.
Public lack of trust in science, in scientific method and in the claims of scientific experts is becoming a serious social problem. In my presentation I will reflect on some of the reasons for such distrust, questioning in particular whether a highly specialised, non-integrative approach to scientific methodology is partly responsible for some of the issues we face. I will discuss whether an approach to the notions of scientific justification and scientific explanation that is more sensitive to the traditional methods of the human and social sciences, can contribute to overcome (or, at least, to understand) the challenges.
Biography
Genoveva Martí obtained her BA at the University of Barcelona and her PhD at Stanford University in 1989. She has been Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Reader at the London School of Economics. Since 2002 she is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. Elected to the Academia Europaea in 2009, she was the first Academic Director of the Barcelona Knowledge Hub and Vice-President of the Academia Europaea from 2018 to 2021.
Martí is a philosopher, primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. This area of research is connected to research areas in Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Psychology.
Website: https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/genoveva-marti-176