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"Science, Reason and Society" (Basel, July 2005)

SCIENCE, REASON AND SOCIETY
A SYMPOSIUM ON THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES

Basel, 7-8 July 2005

Co-organized by:
Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society  
(STS-CH) and Science Studies Program, University of Basel


THURSDAY, JULY 7: 18.00-20.00

Welcome and Introduction
Martina Merz, for STS-CH
Marcel Weber, Basel

Keynote lecture:
MARTIN KUSCH, Cambridge
Scepticism and Relativism in the Strong Programme

Discussant:
MICHAEL ESFELD, Lausanne

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FRIDAY, JULY 8

9.00-9.40
BRUNO STRASSER, Lausanne
History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science: A Story of Love,  
Adultery and Incest

9.40-10.20
DANIEL SIRTES, Basel
Peer-Reviewing and the Specter of the Rational-Social Dichotomy

10.20-10.50 Coffee

10.50-11.30
TARJA KNUUTTILA, Helsinki
Philosophy of Science Meets STS: The Case of Scientific Models

11.30-12.10
KRISTINA ROLIN, Helsinki
STS and Social Theories of Epistemic Justification

12.10-13.00
All participants
Panel discussion

Location: Hotel Bildungszentrum, Missionsstrasse 21, Basel
http://pages.unibas.ch/wissen/main/service/lageplan.htm

For further information please contact:
Prof. Marcel Weber, Universit?t Basel, Wissenschaftsforschung, Tel.  061
 
260 21 87; marcel.weber@unibas.ch or Dr. Martina Merz, Universit?  de 
Lausanne, OSPS, Tel. 021 692 37 03; martina.merz@unil.ch
Supported by: Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel
See also: http://pages.unibas.ch/wissen/main/aktuell/events.htm