Philosophy Colloquium - Scientific and Technological Literacy Series

[Vicki Brett]

The next  Department of Philosophy Colloquium/Scientific and 
Technological Literacy Series talk will be this coming Thursday, March 
3, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in AL 124:  Heather Douglas, University of 
Tennessee,  "Politics and Values in Science".  The abstract is pasted 
below and a poster is attached.

Thank you,
Vicki

"Politics and Values in Science"
Heather Douglas
University of Tennessee

Concern over the politicization of science has been on the rise over the 
past decade.The problem of dueling experts in the public eye has not 
abated, and solutions for stabilizing sources of reliable expertise are 
elusive.Some call for increased emphasis on separating science and 
politics.Some call for more value-free science or a restoration of 
scientific integrity.But what these slogans should actually mean remain 
ill-defined.In this talk, I will provide some conceptual structure to 
this murky terrain, delineating first the proper role for values in 
science, articulating a better ideal than the value-free ideal.I use 
this new ideal to provide guidance in the assessment of public 
scientific experts.While this ideal for the role of values in science 
illuminates some aspects of the politicization of science, I will show 
how by itselfit is inadequate to address the full range of 
politicization concerns.For that, we need to consider both the social 
community of science and the reasons why we pursue science.

-- 
Vicki Brett
Undergraduate Coordinator
Philosophy Department
University of Waterloo
vbrett at uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32449 (HH 365)

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