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PhD student position in "Contingency and Dissent in Science": LSE (London)

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London 
School of Economics offers a 3-year AHRB-funded Studentship for the 
project "Contingency and Dissent in Science" starting in the academic year 
2005/06. It is expected that the PhD research of the student and the 
research for the project dovetail. A description of the project is below. 
The student will work on some aspects of contingency and/ or dissent in 
one of the scientific areas under study in the project (e.g. climate 
change, RCTs, dissent over high temperature superconductors). The project 
is directed by Nancy Cartwright and Stephan Hartmann, with Naomi Oreskes 
from the University of California at San Diego, and is housed by the 
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.

Interested students are invited to send a letter of interest, a Curriculum 
Vitae, a project outline of 500 words and two letters of recommendation by 
20 April 2005 to Prof. Nancy Cartwright, Centre for Philosophy of Natural 
and Social Science, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London 
WC2A 2AE, U.K. or by email (word or pdf file) to S.Hartmann@lse.ac.uk.


Contingency and Dissent in Science

Today society is scrambling to figure out how to manage the uses and 
abuses of science to minimize harm and maximize public benefit. But we 
face dramatically opposed attitudes to science. On one hand, it is 
presumed that the correctness of what science teaches does not come into 
question. On the other, there is widespread dissent even within the 
scientific community about results, methods and consequences. This project 
on contingency and dissent in science aims to develop tools for the 
scrutiny of the correctness of methods and results in the natural and 
human sciences based on detailed case studies. For more information about 
the project, visit

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CPNSS/projects/ContingencyDissentInScience/Default.htm