Dear all, The HPS Philosophy Workshop provides a friendly and supportive setting for graduate students and postdocs to get feedback on their work-in-progress from their peers. Texts are circulated one week in advance and discussed over tea and biscuits in Seminar Room 1 on alternate Wednesdays, 5-6pm.
We begin next Wednesday with Shahar Avin (PhD student in HPS) on 'Science 2.0'. I include Shahar's abstract below; please let me know if you'd like to receive a PDF of the mind-map. Best wishes, Vashka -- Science 2.0: An alternative to Kitcher's Well-Ordered Science In Science in a Democratic Society (2011), Philip Kitcher argued that the institutions of science are in need of reform, reform that will bring them closer to fulfilling their role of providing humanity with reliable answers to significant questions. Kitcher also suggested some practical steps for getting there, such as the creation of an atlas of scientific significance and an index of human needs. In this session of Philosophy Workshop, I will present an alternative set of practical suggestions for reforming scientific institutions*. These suggestions include reforms to the process of science funding, to the division of responsibility between funding bodies, to the role of amateur science, and to the role of online publication and review. I hope to hear from you suggestions for improving this set of practical proposals, and also to discuss your thoughts about the kind of philosophical arguments that would favour this proposal over its alternatives, both those in practice and those proposed by Kitcher and others. * My suggestions, in mind-map format, will be circulated prior to the workshop. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
