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Grant awarded to Lisa Herzog & Tetiana Stepura for Working Democracy: a Philosophy of Work for Democratic Societies

You are all cordially invited to attend a book workshop organised by the PPE Centre to discuss and celebrate Frank Hindriks' new monograph The Structure of the Open Society: Social Ontology Meets Collective Ethics (Oxford University Press). Frank will briefly introduce the main themes of his books and then Maeve McKeown (Groningen), Nicholas Vrousalis (Rotterdam) and Martijn van Zomeren (Groningen) will provide comments to which Frank will respond.

At the Wubbo Ockels School for Energy and Climate, researchers are working on innovative solutions to the major sustainability issues of our time, from technological innovation to circular systems and climate adaptation. Much of this research focuses on developing new methods, models and applications that contribute to a more sustainable world. In addition to the technological and policy aspects of sustainability, there is another, equally important question: how do we ensure that people are truly involved in this transition? Who decides on the design of our future energy supply? How are citizens involved? And what is needed to make that involvement truly meaningful?

According to Leah Henderson, it is crucial that we uphold the principle that scientific research is based on evidence. She is a professor by special appointment in Societal Trust, and affiliated with the Rudolf Agricola School of Sustainable Development. Henderson studies how we communicate about science. ‘Nowadays, you often hear people say: ‘’Science is just another opinion.’’ I completely disagree with that.’