Please see below for information on this year's annual workshop, part of
the Contingency and Dissent in Science project @ CPNSS, LSE (AHRC funded).
Attendance is free and open to all, please email
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'Contingency in Science: Its Origins and Outcomes'
June 21st-22nd 2007
T206, Lakatos Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
- Do scientific results depend on the context in which they are
established?
- How do contingencies in science come about?
- What implications are there for scientific policy making?
Workshop Programme
Thursday June 21st
9.30 - 10.00 Registration, Coffee
10.00 - 11.15 Eileen Munro, Social Policy, LSE, ‘Selective Use of
Scientific Research to Justify Social Policies’
11.15 - 12.30 Sophia Efstathiou, Philosophy, UCSD, ‘Using Contingency in
Science: Found Science’
12.30 - 14.00 Sandwich lunch
14.00 - 15.15 Michael Marmot, Epidemiology, UCL, 'Inequalities in
Health: Causal Judgements and Appropriate Actions'.
15.15 - 15.45 Coffee
16.00 - 17.15 James McAllister, Philosophy, Leiden, TBA
Friday June 22nd
9.00 - 9.30 Coffee
9.30 - 10.45 Damien Fennell, CPNSS, LSE, 'Analysing Why and When
Randomized Controlled Trials Work - Lessons from James Heckman'
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 12.15 Linsey McGoey, BIOS, LSE, ‘Productive ambiguity: RCTs and
the uses of inconsistency’
12.15 -13.30 Merete Konnerup, Director Nordic Cambell Center, ‘Trials
and Tribulations - Evidence-Based Policy, Contingency, and Dissent’
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