On Friday 14th March, Professor Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet and other guests on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking programme, to discuss our shifting relationship to evidence. Sarah will appear alongside Uncanny television presenter Danny Robins, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, and philosophers Dr Jonathan Egid (SOAS) and Dr Anthony Milligan (KCL). Together they will explore the relationship between evidence and decision-making (informed by Sarah’s co-authored book Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2021)), the role of evidence in making historical claims for influence (informed by Sarah’s current research on the influence of literature on artificial intelligence) and the challenging philosophical questions the idea of evidence raises, across sectors and society, in relation to concepts of rigour, validity, interpretation, narrative, belief, and truth.
