Apologies for cross-postings.
Reminder:'Evidence and Dissent in Science Workshop' June 19th and 20th
(part of the AHRC-funded Contingency and Dissent in Science Project)
Location:
T206, Lakatos Building
London School of Economics
Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE
Please register in advance by emailing: [log in to unmask]
Programme:
Monday June 19th
9.00 - 9.30 Registration, Coffee
9.30 - 10.45 Dissent and Evidentiary Procedures
in Regulatory Science
Dr Justus Lentsch
Institute for Science and Technology Studies
University of Bielefeld, Germany
10.50 12.05 Defining a role for evidence from
above
Mr Jeremy Howick
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics.
12.15 13.30 Does dissent in science differ from dissent in religion?
Prof Steve Fuller
Department of Sociology
University of Warwick
13.30 14.30 Break for lunch
14.30 15.45 Testimony, Dissent and the Growth of Knowledge
Prof Peter Lipton
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Cambridge
15.45 16.15 Coffee
16.15 17.30 On the Grammar of Pure Scientific
Dissent
Prof Aristides Baltas
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Tuesday June 20th
9.15 9.30 Coffee
9.30 10.45 Values, Uncertainty, and Dissent: A Rational Basis for
Scientific Disagreement
Dr Heather Douglas
Philosophy Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, U.S.A.
10.50 12.05 Evidence and Dissent in Structural Econometrics
Dr Damien Fennell
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
London School of Economics
12.05 Closing Remarks.
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