Episode Topic: Beyond Good Manners - Promoting Civil Discussion on Issues that Divide Us

This first session of Bridging the Divide will set the stage for the others by emphasizing the need for fact-based, ethical arguments on important political issues. Experts from Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University in the areas of writing and rhetoric, cognition and cognitive neuroscience, and network science and machine learning will discuss the pervasiveness of false information in our current environment, how to protect oneself against it, and the importance of truthfulness and fact-based arguments in civil discourse.

Featured Speakers:

• John Duffy, Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
• Lisa Fazio, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University
• Maura Policelli,  associate professor of the practice and executive director of the Keough School’s Washington, D.C., office, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/2706db. 

This podcast is a part of the Bridging the Divide Discussion Series titled "Bridging the Divide" 2020.

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