Scientific Impartiality and Marginalized Groups

10th September 2021    ONLINE

Affiliated Workshop at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2021 (see: https://www.sbg.ac.at/sophia/SOPhiA/2021/languages/en/index.php )

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imp-marg-gr/startseite

== Speakers:

Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Eugénie Hunsicker (Loughborough)

Lara Jost (St Andrews and Stirling)

Vlasta Sikimić (Tübingen)

more TBA

== Topic:

This workshop aims to address traditional topics in the (feminist) philosophy of science, such as impartiality and objectivity in science, the value-free ideal, and debate around inductive risk and the role of non-epistemic values in scientific reasoning. We are especially interested in thinking about how one decides which non-epistemic values should play a role in scientific reasoning (if any), and attempts to make precise exactly what role they should play. Within the feminist epistemology, we want to, furthermore, focus on the concepts of situated epistemology and standpoint theory, as a means of exploring how employing the values of marginalised groups in the scientific process can support the claims put forward by these epistemological positions. We wish to supplement these theoretical considerations by various case studies from any branch of science (broadly construed), whereom employing non-epistemic values and especially feminist ones, leads to epistemic, as well as non-epistemic benefits within science, for affected and marginalised groups, as well as for society more generally.

This workshop aims to bring together philosophers of science, including feminist philosophers of science, as well as, more generally, people interested in feminist philosophy, not necessarily at the same time being engaged in philosophy of science.

== Registration:

Please use this google form to register for the event:

The number of participants is limited and registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Therefore please register as soon as possible. There are no costs associated with registration.

If you do not want to use a google form, please send us that you would like to participate to Impartiality@outlook.de

You will receive a pointer to the zoom link a few days before the conference.

== Contact:

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imp-marg-gr/startseite

Mail: Impartiality@outlook.de

== Organizers:

Sophie Nagler (Oxford, MCMP) & Hannah Pillin (MCMP, LMU) & Deniz Sarikaya (Hamburg)

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information.