– Lieu :
College of Humanities, EPFL Lausanne
Room ELA 2
Science and technology are a central development in today’s world – but some of their consequences are highly debated as their effects are not always beneficial. These debates are not launched by irrational activists and raise important questions that societies attempt to solve.
The four public lectures that Dominique Pestre – Professor at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris and invited Professor at the College of Humanities – will give in March 2012 will consider the variety of today’s sciences, scientific and economic changes that happened over the last decades, the way risks are evaluated and managed, the demands of civil society to be part of the solutions – and the way scientists and engineers could answer them.
– Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Logic of Scientific Knowledge
Evidence, Experimentation and Ignorance in Physics and Biology
– Wednesday March 14, 2012
Risk and Risk Societies
Two Centuries of Knowledge and Risk Management
– Wednesday March 21, 2012
The Great Transformation
Science, Economy and Society over the Last Thirty Years
– Wednesday March 28, 2012
The Governance of Innovation
People’s Participation in Technological Choices Today
