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36 conferences to understand cognitive biases, the scientific approach and develop critical thinking.
Brain Biases
A series of lectures exploring how we can act irrationally regardless of our level of intelligence or education. Through everyday situations, we explore reasoning biases at the root of these errors and present tools to guard against them.
Perceptual Illusions
Discovering the Barnum Effect
How Our Beliefs Shape Our Reality
Cognitive Biases and Information Processing
Towards a Scientific Psychology
Psychology is a scientific discipline. However, many fields adopt its codes without the same rigor or ethics. Our research aims to improve the ability to distinguish valid practices from pseudosciences.
Giftedness, Zebra, Autism...
Navigating Psychological Categories
Deconstructing Myths About Intelligence
The Myth of Induced False Memories
The Mysteries of the Placebo Effect
Freedom to Think for Oneself
Are we truly the authors of our choices and ideas? This category explores tensions between autonomy, influence, and creativity. Through lectures blending philosophy, cognitive sciences, sociology, and history, we question what it would mean to "think freely," the origin of our ideas, and how the act of creation occurs.
Free Will Between Determinism and Freedom
Invisible Chains
Beyond Geniuses and Revolutionary Ideas
Critical Thinking and Intellectual Creation
History of Ideas and Skepticism
Many philosophical currents have nurtured science, but two stand out: skepticism and rationalism. Today, rich debates continue to push our understanding of the world through scientific concepts. These lectures offer original ways to traverse the history of ideas.
The Two Families of Skepticism
When Society Influences Science
New
Beware of Media Definitions
What Lies Behind the Concept of Populism
Science, Cross-disciplinary Intelligence, and Critical Approach
What if science was not an accumulation of certainties, but a path strewn with errors, collaborations, and multiple viewpoints? This category highlights the collective, critical, and interconnected dimensions of science: how we process data, correct errors, and make knowledge intelligible to all.
A Process More Than a Result
Science and Errors
Data, Territory, Environment
Making Sense and Intelligence Emerge
Thinking About Human-Machine Intelligence and Dialogue
What if machines did not just imitate us, but also revealed us? This category offers a critical look at artificial intelligence, mirroring our own way of learning, reasoning, and creating. These lectures question the links between error, consciousness, creativity, and augmented intelligence.
Beyond Stereotypes
AI & Humans - Who Learns from Whom?
Towards Augmented Intelligence?
Thinking with Machines
AI Challenges
The AI revolution must make us question the world we want. We must first understand what AI really is, and especially what ethical challenges we will need to politically address in the coming years.
New
Challenges and Solutions for the Future
Building Ethical AI?
The Example of Work
Is Artificial Intelligence a Revolution for Humanity?
Deconstructing the Ideology of Digital Giants
Information Challenges
In a world where information is omnipresent, it is crucial to understand how our mind processes information and how media influences our perception of reality. These lectures explore the contemporary media landscape, as well as cognitive biases and critical thinking challenges in the Internet and disinformation era.
Access to Information in the Internet Age
New
How Do Media (Mis)treat Science?
Tools and Strategy in an Era of Misinformation
A Different Approach to Socio-Scientific Questions
Socio-scientific questions are current issues requiring both scientific and political knowledge. We take on the challenge of addressing them without trying to truncate a debate to suit our purposes.
Update on Egalitarian Communication
The Influence of Language on Our Thoughts
Critical Look at Judicial Rhetoric in Sexual Violence Cases
Gisèle Pelicot Rape Trial
Illuminating Political Debate
What if we changed our view of politics? This series offers participatory lectures to explore new ways of approaching political debates. Our association works to help every citizen more easily engage with the current events that concern them.
New
Interactive Workshop
Decoding Rhetorical Techniques in Political Discourse
How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Public Policy?
New
Why Are So Many Myths Associated with Economic Science?
New
Is It a Good Idea to Listen to Opinions That Contradict Us?
A Different Look at Activists
There are many preconceptions about political activists - how being partisan to a cause can alter our discernment or reduce our critical thinking. Examining several disciplines, rigorous analysis seems to contradict many of these clichés. These lectures present several research findings at the interface of science and political debates.
New
A Scientific Response
"Extremes Meet"?
Do Certain Ideologies Predispose to a Lack of Critical Thinking?
New
Are Activists More "Irrational" Than Others?
Energy Pseudosciences
Many disciplines pass themselves off as sciences without the rigor or methods that guarantee robust results. Here are some topics we have investigated. We will see that these pseudosciences are often based on real scientific theories, but apply them to inappropriate fields.
Understanding Realities and Dispelling Illusions About Quantum Mechanics
New
Transurfing and Personal Development
New
Investigation into Animal Communication
New
Rice Jar Experiment / M. Emoto