Dear all The third CamPoS seminar of Michaelmas term will be given by Haixin Dang <http://www.haixindang.com/ <http://www.haixindang.com/>>, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Details as follows:
Time: Wednesday 18 November, 1-2:30pm Place: Online via Zoom: details below. Title: Epistemic Responsibility and Scientific Authorship Abstract: Epistemic responsibility is a central concept in the social epistemic practices of science, but the concept has often been left unanalyzed. The paper reporting the mass of the Higgs boson had over 5,000 listed authors. To what extent are these authors epistemically responsible for the discovery of the mass of the Higgs boson? We need to clarify the concept of epistemic responsibility which can ground our determination of who should be acknowledged or rewarded for scientific discovery and also who should be sanctioned when a scientific claim turns out to be false or erroneous. Questions over epistemic responsibility in science are intimately tied with issues over scientific authorship. In face of collaboration, some philosophers of science have argued that there is no responsible agent or responsible author in large scientific teams (Huebner 2014; Huebner, Kukla, and Winsberg 2017; and Winsberg, Huebner, and Kukla 2014) and others (Wray 2006, 2018) have argued that only a group agent can be said to be responsible for collective outputs as a group author. Both of these existing accounts are inadequate for scientific practice. I argue that we ought to reject both these views of scientific authorship. Instead, I offer an alternative account and show how we can coherently locate epistemic responsibility to individuals. Every collaborator will be responsible but be responsible in different senses. I argue that we ought to look for a more fine-grained analysis of epistemic responsibility. There are questions about who is properly connected to the scientific claim (attributability), who can answer for and give reasons for a particular scientific claim (answerability), and who should be held accountable for or praised for scientific claims (accountability). In conclusion, I discuss how my analysis bear on current reforms as scientists and journal editors look for new models of scientific authorship. Zoom details: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96520584611?pwd=NkdzQmZyRmxXR0xUSXRsSzgrMFdndz09 <https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96520584611?pwd=NkdzQmZyRmxXR0xUSXRsSzgrMFdndz09> Meeting ID: 965 2058 4611 Passcode: 721894 The following CamPoS seminars will run during Michaelmas Term: 2 December: Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon/Cambridge): Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls You can also follow us at https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci <https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci> All the best Matt Dr Matt Farr • Research & Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge • Department of History & Philosophy of Science Free School Lane | Cambridge | CB2 3RH w mattfarr.co.uk <http://www.mattfarr.co.uk/> | e [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | t 01223334559 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
