Dear all, I'm starting a reading group in formal social epistemology. We will meet during term time on Mondays at 13:00 in the CSER meeting room on the 3rd floor of the David Attenborough building. Our first meeting will be on 30 January. Please reply to this email if you're interested and I will make sure you receive emails relating to this.
Formal social epistemology studies questions from social epistemology, especially questions relating to the social structure of science, such as how to achieve an optimal "cognitive division of labor" (distribution of scientists over research paradigms), or under what circumstances it is a good thing for scientists to share information. The approach taken to these questions is formal, i.e., using mathematics and/or simulations. Some papers we might read include: Hong and Page 2004, "Groups of Diverse Problem Solvers Can Outperform Groups of High-Ability Problem Solvers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Kummerfeld and Zollman 2016, "Conservatism and the Scientific State of Nature", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Smaldino and McElreath 2016, "The Natural Selection of Bad Science", Royal Society Open Science. Avin and Currie (manuscript), "Method Pluralism, Method Mismatch, and Method Bias". Please let me know if you are interested! Best, -- Remco Heesen Research Fellow Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom [email protected] _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
