[Ssnet_list] FW: philosophy grad conference, Oct. 19-20

[Leah M Ceccarelli]

See below for a conference that will be of interest to STSS students and other members of the SSNet community on campus!

From: Sara Goering
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 8:06 AM
Subject: philosophy grad conference, Oct. 19-20


Dear UW community,


We cordially invite you to this year's graduate conference on October 19th and 20th at the University of Washington. The conference is titled Science, etc.: Explanation, Technology, and Communication and will involve talks by eleven external graduate students on topics pertaining to philosophy of science, the relation between ethics, science, and technology as well as philosophical and ethical questions regarding science communication. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Heather Douglas (Michigan State University), a leading scholar in the field. Dr. Douglas's work spans the intersection of science, policy, and society. See below for an abstract of her keynote talk, and a schedule of speakers. A poster is attached.


The aim of the conference is to give graduate students working in philosophy of science, values and science, and science communication the opportunity to present their work, connect with other professionals in the field and facilitate academic exchange. We encourage interested students and faculty from across UW to attend.


Please join us in the HUB Rm 337 from 8:30am-5:30pm on Thursday, October 19 and Friday, October 20th.



Kade Cicchella, Bri High and Julia Pelger (grad conference committee)








Heather Douglas "Revising the Social Contract for Science" Friday October 20, 3:30 p.m., HUB 337

The social contract for science was a tacit agreement between scientists and government officials, and between science and society more broadly, forged in the aftermath of WWII.  Although there are strands of this agreement that were debated and developed prior to WWII, it was in the crucible of the post war context that the pieces of the social contract came together.  The central pieces were 1) a distinction between basic and applied science, 2) a freedom from responsibility for societal impact when pursuing basic science (and an accompanying autonomy for scientists to decide which basic science to pursue), and 3) a special justification for funding basic science through public funds.  I will describe how these three components merged in the post war context, how they powerfully shaped the understanding of the relationship between science and society (including underwriting the value-free ideal for science), and why they must be replaced in our current context.  We still need some sense of agreement about how science is to be pursued, funded, and used in our pluralist democratic society.  I will sketch what a social contract for science might look like for the 21st century.

Thursday, 19th of October
08:00 Coffee
08:30 Jessica Lauman-Lairson, Questioning 'relevant similarity' accounts of analogical inference
09:30 Baoyu Dai, How Mathematics Explain: A Shift from (counterfactual) Ontic to Epistemic Approach
10:30 Dylan Goldman, Response to McKenzie: Towards a New Account of Progress in Metaphysics
11:30 - Lunch
1:30 Caitlin Mace, Negotiating Ascription of Content to Neural Activity
2:30 Chelsie Greenlee, The Sex Binary as a Fiction in Scientific Models
3:30 Rebecca Korf, Transparency in Science as a Social Norm
6:30 Dinner
 Friday, 20th of October
08:00 Coffee
08:30 Binjie Zou, Scientific communication: rational distrust? (Zoom)
09:30 Kirstin Waldkoenig, Geoethics and the Spatial Reasoning of Deep Time
10:30  Asher Caplan, Deepfake Detection as Social Practice: Assessing the "AI Arms Race" for Manipulated Audio-Visual Media
11:30 - Lunch
1:30 Adam C. Smith, Politically Legitimate Values in Science Policy Advising: A Feminist Public Reason View
2:30 Jesse Hamilton, Science in Accordance with Public Reason: Desiderata for a Democratic Society
3:30 Keynote: Dr. Heather Douglas, Revising the Social Contract for Science
5:30 Reception at the Big Table, 3rd Floor Savery



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