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Conference on Science and Values, Bielefeld July 2003

First Notre-Dame--Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and
Values, July 9 - 12, 2003, Zentrum f?r interdisziplin?re Forschung (ZiF
),
Bielefeld University

http://www.nd.edu/~hps/NDBIProgram.html
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/AG/2003/07-09-Carrier.html

Organizers: Martin Carrier, Don Howard, Peter Weingart

Wednesday, July 9

2:15                 Opening

2:30 - 4:30    The New Production of Knowledge: Application,
               Uncertainty, Reflexivity
                      Peter Weingart (Fac. of Sociology, Bielefeld U.):
                      "Mode 2 and Socially Robust Knowledge"
                      Roger Strand (Centre for the Study of the Sciences
                        and the Humanities U. of Bergen):
                      "The Idea of a Post-Normal Science"

5:00 - 7:00    The Role of Social Values in Science
                      Ernan McMullin (Dept. of Philosophy, U. Notre
                         Dame):
                      "The Rational and the Social Revisited"
                      Helen Longino (Dept. of Philosophy and Center for
                        Philosophy of Science, U. of Minnesota):
                      "Values, Heuristics, and the Politics of
                        Knowledge"

Thursday, July 10

9:00 - 11:00    The Significance of Epistemic Values in Science: The
                     Bearing of Underdetermination on Theory Choice
                        Yemima Ben-Menahem (Dept. of Philosophy, Hebrew
                        U. Jerusalem):
                        "Quine: Underdetermination and its
                        Deconstruction?
                        John Norton (Dept. of History and Philosophy of
                          Science, U. of Pittsburgh):
                        "Must evidence underdetermine theory?"

11:30 - 1:30    The Commercialization of Science
                       James R. Brown (Dept. of Philosophy, U. of
                         Toronto):
                        "Community of Science (?)"
                       Martin Carrier (Dept. of. Philosophy, Bielefeld
                         U.):
                       "Application Dominance, Knowledge Gain and Public
                         Access to Science"

2:30? - 4:30    Economics and Values
                      Philip Mirowski (Dept. of Economics, U. of Notre
                          Dame):
                      "The Scientific Dimensions of Social Knowledge and
                       their Distant Echoes in 20th century American
                       Philosophy of Science"
                      Esther-Mirjam Sent (Dept. of Economics, U. of
                        Notre Dame):
                      "The Economic Value(s) in and of Science"

5:00 - 7:00    Shared Moral Commitments and the Cohesion of Societies
                     Alfons Bora (Institute for Science and Technology
                        Studies, Bielefeld U.):
                     "Morals as a contested concept"
                     Bernhard Peters (Institute for Intercultural and
                       International Studies, U. of Bremen):
                    "Morality in Society-Morality in the Social
                       Sciences"

Friday, July 11

9:00 - 11:00    Truth, Empirical Adequacy and Non-Empirical Virtues
                        Robert Almeder (Dept. of Philosophy, Georgia
                            State):
                        "Blind Realism, Science, and Truth?
                        Jay Rosenberg (Dept. of Philosophy, U. of North
                               Carolina at Chapel Hill):
                        "Why and How to be a Scientific Realist"

11:30 - 1:30    Traditional Ideals: Unified Science and Value-Free
                            Science
                        Margaret Morrison (Trinity College, U. of
                          Toronto):
                        "Pragmatic Models and Unified Theories:  A False
                         Dichotomy"
                        Janet Kourany (Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Notre
                            Dame):
                        "Rethinking the Ideal of Value-Free Science"

Saturday, July 12

9:00 -?11:00    History of Philosophy of Science: Values and Politics in
                             the Vienna Circle
                       Don Howard (Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Notre
                          Dame):
                       "The Elimination of Metaphysics through
                         Dialectical Analysis of Science: Marxism in the
                         Background of
                         Logical Empiricism"
                       Thomas Uebel (Dept. of Government, U. of
                         Manchester):
                        "The Left Vienna Circle and the Politics of
                           Noncognitivism"

11:30 - 1:30    The Multi-Faceted History of Science
                        Michael Hagner (Max-Planck-Institute for the
                             History of Science, Berlin):
                        "What is the value of pluralism in the history
                          of science?"
                        Chris Hamlin (Dept. of History, U. of Notre
                           Dame):
                        "Collins' and Evans' Third Wave Science Studies:
                        An Agenda for the History and Philosophy of
                        Science?"


Support from the ZiF, the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and the University of
Notre Dame is kindly acknowledged.