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Friday, April 5

Grad student pre-conference

1:00 – 2:20 Keynote – Andrew Schroeder (Claremont McKenna) Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades…and democratic deliberation about science?
2:20 – 3:10 Monte Cairns (Cambridge) Does political theory promise solutions for the values in science literature, or only bigger problems
3:10 – 4:00 Jesse Hamilton (Penn) Public reason and values in science: theoretical challenges and solutions

Break

4:20 – 5:10 Adam Smith (Utah) Politically Legitimate Values in Science Policy Advising: A Feminist Public Reason View
5:10 – 6:00 Emily Tilton (UBC) Anxious Epistemology
Saturday, April 6

8:30 – Coffee/breakfast

9:00 – 10:20 Keynote – Arnon Levy (Jerusalem) Ideals, Idealization and the Scientific Research Agenda
10:20 – 11:10 Soazig Le Bihan (Montana) A fiduciary model of public trust in value-laden science
11:10 – 12:00 Carlos Santana (Penn) The value of openness in Open Science
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:20 Sandra Mitchell (Pitt) Scientific Role obligations and the Social Normativity of Human Institutions
2:20 – 3:10 Margaret Farrell (UC Irvine)

Rebecca Korf (UC Irvine)

Value influence in causal selection in the social sciences
Break
3:25 – 4:15 Anjan Chakravartty (Miami) Renewing humanist conceptions of the aim science
Break
4:30 – 5:50 Keynote – Zina Ward (Florida State) When are Scientific Claims Admissible in Public Justification?
Sunday, April 7
8:30 – Coffee/breakfast
9:00-10:20 Keynote – Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge) Sisyphean Science: Why Value Freedom Is Worth Pursuing
10:20-11:10 Mark Risjord (Emory) Inquiry, impartiality, and risk: lessons from the Kerner Commission
11:10 – 12:00 Rivkah Hatchwell (KCL) Individual values and inductive risk: remotivating the Bayesian alternative
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:20 Sam Fletcher & Corey Dethier (Minnesota) Consistent estimators and the argument from inductive risk
2:20 – 3:10 Romy Vekony (Florida State) Non-Epistemic Values and Epistemic Ideals
Break
3:25 – 4:15 Keynote – Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech) Motivations and Challenges for the Epistemic Projection Approach
End of conference
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