| Event date | May 23, 2019 - May 24, 2019 |
|---|---|
| Location | Norway |
| Host(s) | University of Bergen |
| Event website/information | For further info, write to Julie.Zahle@uib.no |
Workshop: Objectivity in Social Research
23-24 May 2019
Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen (Seminar room 1, 1st floor).
Program
Thursday 23. May
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome & Coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki): Objectivity in Contexts
11:00 – 12:00 Julie Zahle (University of Bergen): The Objectivity of Qualitative Data Sets
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki): Humanistic Interpretation and Machine Learning
14.30 – 15:30 Catherine Herfeld and Charles Djordjevic (University of Zürich): The Evaluative Aspect of the Concept of Addiction in Economics: The Case of Gary Becker
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee etc.
16:00 – 17.00 Julian Reiss (Durham University): Robust Scientific Institutions as a Solution to Fact/Value Entanglement
Friday 24. May
10:00 – 11:00 Harold Kincaid (University of Cape Town): Live Empirical Issues in Debates over Objectivity
11:00 – 12:00 Maria Jiménez Buedo (UNED, Spain): Objectivity and Experimental Practices in the Social Sciences
12.00 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.15 Rosie Worsdale and Jack Wright (Cambridge University): The Problems with
Context Independent Appeals to Objectivity: A Case Study of Gender Metrics
14.15 – 15:15 David Peterson (University of California): Statistical Objectivity and Metascience
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee, etc.
15.30 – 16.30 Erik Angner (University of Stockholm): tba
To attend the workshop, send an email to Julie.Zahle@uib.no no later than 6 May. Please notice that only a limited number of spaces is available.
The workshop is organized by Julie Zahle (University of Bergen), Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki), and Erik Angner (University of Stockholm).