Workshop: Social Beliefs in Science

Registration is open. RSVP here by April 28, 2025.

Date: May 2-3, 2025
Location: Social and Behavior Sciences Gateway, 1321  (campus map)
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm, with refreshments from 9am.
Logistics: Paid parking available in Social Science Parking Structure

Précis: Social beliefs and values influence science, and at the same time scientific findings influence social beliefs and values.  This workshop explores a number of topics surrounding this influence, and implications for our understanding of scientific communities.

Schedule: 

Friday May 2

9am Coffee and light breakfast   

9:20am  Welcome by Cailin O'Connor

9:30am  Rebecca Korf and Margaret Farrell, "Value Influence in Causal Selection"

10:45am Kal Kalewold, "Racialization: Causal and Metaphysical"

12pm Catered Lunch    

1:30pm Sharon Crasnow, "Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science"

2:45pm Coffee Break    

3pm  Gabi Johnson, "Revisiting Bias: Friend or Foe"

4:15pm  Kareem Khalifa, "Construction Under Constraints: Race Categories for the Working Social Scientist"

6:45 Conference dinner (by invitation)

Saturday May 3

9am Coffee and light breakfast   

9:30am  Cailin O'Connor, "When is a Science Not a Science?"

10:45am  Dan Hicks, "Developing Measures of Public Perceptions of Values in Science: The Values in Science Scale"

12pm Catered Lunch    

1:30pm Rima Basu, "Curiosity and Its Limits"

2:45pm Optional hike