Speakers
Over the course of the day, each speaker will present a solution to the problem of telling fact from fiction in the age of information. Speakers in this symposium will address this issue from an intensely interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from information theory in physics, to signaling theory in evolutionary biology, to communication science and fake news.
Sara Walker
ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
Information is life
Paul Davies
ASU Beyond Center
Is the universe a fake?
Chris Adami
Michigan State University, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics / Physics & Astronomy
Information can’t be false
Athena Aktipis
ASU Department of Psychology
Hide and go cheat
Roger White
ASU W. P. Carey School of Business
Accounting for cheating
Virginia Kwan
ASU Department of Psychology
What parts of the whole are fact and which are fiction?
Carlo Maley
ASU School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Institute
Do cancer cells lie to the body?
Jessica Brinkworth
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Anthropology
The lies are coming from inside the cell: how pathogens manipulate the organelles that should destroy them
Mike Angilletta
ASU School of Life Sciences
Everybody lies
Jennifer Fewell
ASU School of Life Sciences
Fake news in ant colonies
Ted Pavlic
ASU School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Can ants help us design decentralized systems for finding the truth?
Joe Alcock
University of New Mexico, Emergency Medicine
The truth about your health: Improving medical decisions by facing the evolutionary reality
Greg Bryant
UCLA, Department of Communication
The slippery concept of real in laughter and music performances
Kristy Roschke
ASU Journalism & Mass Communication
Making media informative again
Gregg Zachary
ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society
From Useful Fictions to Socially-Constructed Facts: truth claims in time of uncertainty
Ed Finn
ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
You can’t handle the truth
Discussants
Discussants will provide comments throughout the day and be part of a moderated panel at the conclusion of the symposium.
Jon Harrison
ASU School of Life Sciences
Stephanie Birdsall
ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Polly Wiessner
ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Bernard Kobes
ASU Department of Philosophy
Jason Robert
ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Pamela Winfrey
ASU Biodesign Institute and Department of Psychology
Sarah Viren
ASU Language & Cultures
Steven Beschloss
ASU Senior Director for Narrative Development
