DOUBT, DISTRUST AND DISINFORMATION
COGITO EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE
@ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
In the 2026–27 academic year COGITO is hosting an interdisciplinary seminar series exploring how doubt and distrust are cultivated, and the effects they have, from the level of individual cognition to societal (dys)function. Speakers from philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, politics and sociology present work on conspiratorial thinking, bias and prejudice, navigating trust online, the cognitive and social effects of generative AI, and the effects of mis- and disinformation on our political environments.
Seminars are on Thursdays, 3–5pm, in room 386AB, Adam Smith Building.
To join the mailing list, email lilith.mace@glasgow.ac.uk.
Schedule, 2026–27
24 September 2026: Lara Maassen (University of St Andrews), “Is Gaslighting Making Us Crazy? On Rational Agency and Gaslighting”
8 October 2026: Yvonne Skipper (University of Glasgow), “What Makes Something ‘Fake’? Young People’s Views of Misinformation and What We Do About It”
22 October 2026: Yvonne Eadon (University of Glasgow), “Femmetrails: Ephemerality and Desire in Queer Fringe Research Cultures”
19 November 2026: Lluis de Nadal Alsina (University of Glasgow), “Disinformation Does Not Spread Like a Virus: The Limits of the Contagion Model of Social Influence”
28 January 2027: Juliette Vazard (University of Zürich), title to be announced
25 February 2027: Sergiu Spatan (LMU Munich), title to be announced
11 March 2027: Glenn Anderau (University of Zürich), title to be announced
22 April 2027: Matt Jope (University of Glasgow), title to be announced
6 May 2027: N. Ángel Pinillos (Arizona State University), title to be announced