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Thursday, July 3rd
1:30pm Time to find the room, get a name-tag and stake out your favorite seat
1:50pm Opening remarks
2pm Leon Isenmann: The Metaphysics of Echo Chambers and Conspiracy Believers
3pm Tyler Porter: Weaponizing Defeaters
4pm Nick Felix Dreikausen & Marie Charlotte Wolf: Epistemic Pipelines. Intercepting Epistemic Violence and the Cause of Echo Chambers.
5pm Keynote: Keith Harris: Misinformation, Mistrust, and the Paradox of Persuasion
7pm Conference Dinner
Friday, July 4th
10:50am Time to get caffeinated and re-connect with your favorite seat
11am – 12:30pm Keynote: Benjamin Elzinga: Bad Echo Chambers and Bad Education
12:45pm – 1:30pm Sam Kang: Algorithmic Filters and Evidence-Gathering
1:30pm – 3pm LUNCH BREAK
3pm Ramona Zăgrean: Science in the Post-truth Era: The Case of Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology
4pm Federica Imbriale: Countering Misinformation in Social Networks: A Network-Theoretic Approach to Fact-Checking
5pm Keynote: Megan Fritts: How To Be a Techno-Pessimist: Evaluating Emerging Technology in an Era of Misinformation
Saturday, July 5th
10am-12pm Optional visit to the Austrian parliament*
1:50pm Time to get caffeinated and begin saying slow good-byes
2pm Mihai-Alexandru Petrișor: Why Epistemically Virtuous Agents Can’t Stay in Echo Chambers
3pm Philipp Kremers: Vindicating the Myth of the Good Epistemic Bubble
4pm Evelina Lissoni: Against a Pejorative Engineering of ‘Conspiracy Theory’
5pm Keynote: Giulia Napolitano: Conspiracy Theories and Resistance to Evidence
6:30pm Closing remarks
* If you want to participate in the parliament tour please send an email to filteringtruth(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)gmail.com to register at least a day in advance!
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