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Heather Douglas: “Science, Values and Democracy”
5 September 2016 - 7 September 2016
René Descartes Lectures 2016, Tilburg University
Heather Douglas: “Science, Values and Democracy”
The 5th René Descartes Lectures will be held by Heather Douglas (Waterloo) at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, on 5-7 September 2016.
The topic of Professor Douglas’s lectures is “Science, Values and Democracy”.
LECTURE I: Science and Values: The Pervasive Entanglement
LECTURE II: Science and Democracy: Squaring Expertise with Accountability
LECTURE III: Science Communication: Beyond the Deficit Model
The conference features six invited commentaries and 24 contributed papers.
www.descarteslectures2016.
INVITED COMMENTATORS:
—Matthew J. Brown (UT Dallas)
—Arthur Petersen (UCL)
—Kristina Rolin (Helsinki)
—Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)
—Daniel Steel (Michigan State)
—Torsten Wilholt (Hannover)
The conference is hosted by the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) and organized by Silvia Ivani and Jan Sprenger. It is funded by the ERC Starting Grant “Making Scientific Inferences More Objective”.
Anybody interested in attending the conference should register by *25 August 2016* on this page:
www.descarteslectures2016.
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