5th René Descartes Lectures 2016

Heather Douglas (Waterloo Chair in Science and Society) has just returned from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where she gave the 5th Descartes Lectures on the topic of “Science, Values, and Democracy.”  Three lectures were given by Heather over three days, one on Values and Science, one on Science and Democracy (and issues of accountability), and one on Science Communication.  Heather explains, “Each lecture had two intrepid commentators, who were in order: Matt Brown, Kristina Rolin, Arthur Petersen, Torsten Wilholt, Dan Steel, and Eric Schliesser.  Afternoons were devoted to parallel sessions on the topic of the conference.  It was a great, intense three days.  Matt Brown tweeted throughout, so you can get a feel for the whole thing here:

Descartes Lectures Day 1

Descartes Lectures Day 2

Descartes Lectures Day 3

Also, Eric Schliesser wrote a blog post.

Heather Douglas with commentators and organizers of the 5th Descartes Lectures