In a universe of knowledge, where contradictory versions of the world coexist in our community, and where there is growing discussion on the crisis of authority and the death of expertise, it becomes increasingly important - as Umberto Eco remarked - to study the false rather than believe the truth. The research center Knowledge & Cognition (K&C) promotes several researches, concerning the relationships among truth, data and evidence; the acquisition and representation of knowledge; the nature of truth and the function of the “truth predicate”; the “normative dimension” of truth; the ways of organizing opinions into hierarchies and the construction of belief through the false or the likely; the "official" truth and predictability of regulation. Some of the possible subtopics are:
Some of the possible subtopics are: