[spsp-members] Cfp: workshop on Values in Science in the Rest of the World

[Koskinen, A V Inkeri via spsp-members]

Dear SPSP-members,

we are organising a workshop on Values in Science in the Rest of the World in Helsinki, August 24–25 – that is, just before ENPOSS 2026.

Keynote speakers:
David Ludwig (Wageningen University)
Karoliina Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki)

Although the various roles that values play in science are discussed extensively in philosophy of science, this discussion overwhelmingly takes place in North America and Western Europe, and in the vast majority of it, the assumed societal context is an Anglophone democracy. This limits the kinds of values included in the discussion and the modes by which those values are considered. Some philosophers of science have recently started paying attention to this bias and the lacunae it creates, discussing, for instance, values in science in non-democratic contexts (Pulkkinen forthcoming 2026), science and democracy in light of theories of democracy that are not mainstream in anglophone academia (Hilligart & Wilholt forthcoming 2026), and the lack of philosophical discussions about scientific communities in subaltern regions (Gutiérrez Valderrama 2025). However, our understanding of the full consequences of this bias is currently limited.

The aim of our two-day workshop is to open up the discussion about values in science to include a broader range of values and approaches to value inclusion in science, with examples and case studies from a wider set of geographical locations.

We invite 500-word abstracts to be submitted to scienceval...@gmail.com by March 20, 2026.

For more information, see the cfp here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/valuesinscienceintherestoftheworld/ or here: https://philevents.org/event/show/146425

All best,
Inkeri Koskinen


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Inkeri Koskinen
Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki
www.inkerikoskinen.net
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