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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
The workshop will deal with the question of what it means to hold beliefs responsibly and what standards of epistemic due care are appropriate in the context of public policy. While this question is increasingly attracting attention in philosophical circles, this is still an emerging field of research in epistemology and much more so in philosophy of public policy. The workshop will therefore address the following questions:
What are the epistemic obligations of different agents involved in evidence-based policy?
Which different roles and responsibilities for knowledge producers (researchers), knowledge users (policy makers) and knowledge brokers (intermediary organizations) can be identified?
What are policy makers epistemic obligations to be 'in the know', to avoid potentially harmful ignorance and to have enough information for responsible action?
How do scientists and policy makers act responsibly in a socio-political environment where certain groups of people have been discredited or taken less seriously in their capacity as 'knowers' and certain types of evidence feature less prominently in policy-making?
Policy-making is a group-based process: How does knowledge have to be distributed in a group for the group to be able to act/adopt decisions based on that knowledge? How can groups know or fail to know certain things/adopt certain beliefs?
How does the epistemic environment impact policy-makers and when is such impact problematic?
Information on participating / attending:
The workshop is open to the interested public, participation is free of charge, online-participation is possible. If you are interested in participating or have any inquiries about the research group The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy: How Philosophy can Facilitate the Science-Policy Interface please contact the group's coordinator Ricardo Kaufer.
ricardo.kaufer@uni-bielefeld.de
+49 521 106-12832
Date:
06/28/2023 - 06/29/2023
Event venue:
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
Universität Bielefeld
Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Bielefeld University
Methoden 1
33615 Bielefeld
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Biology, Law, Philosophy / ethics, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
05/23/2023
Sender/author:
Dr. Manuela Lenzen
Department:
Medien und News
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74470
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