Editors:
David Ludwig
is an associate professor in the "Knowledge, Technology and Innovation"
Group of Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands). His work
combines philosophy of science and transdisciplinary research in
addressing epistemological, ontological, political challenges in scientific practice.
Inkeri Koskinen
is a senior research fellow at Tampere University (Finland), and a
member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT). She works
on scientific objectivity, democratisation of scientific knowledge
production, social and cognitive diversity in science, demarcation, and
philosophy of the humanities.
Zinhle Mncube
is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Johannesburg and a PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at
the University of Cambridge. She works on issues related to
personalising medicine, the role of genes in phenotypes, and philosophy
of race, broadly construed.
Luana Poliseli
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for
Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Austria. Her works approach
general philosophical questions through empirical knowledge of
particular sciences, including themes of mechanistic explanation;
model-building; knowledge production for sustainability sciences, and
more recently aesthetic experiences in scientific understanding.
Luis Reyes-Galindo is an associate editor for the journal Tapuya and a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Epistemologies
and Ontologies at Wageningen University & Research. His research
includes the sociology of science and technology, scientific
communication and open access publishing, and the role of experts in
policy making.
Invited authors:
Chad Harris
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is director of the department’s
African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy
of Science (ACEPS) and works under the ACEPS project “Rationality and
Power.” His other research interests are in the methodology of social
science, especially the problem of external validity. His previous
publications have looked at traditional medical practices and how they
can be reconciled with mainstream medicine.
Inkeri Koskinen is
a senior research fellow at Tampere University (Finland), and a member
of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT). She currently
works in the research project “Social and Cognitive Diversity in
Science: An Epistemic Assessment” (2018– 2022). Her recent publications
have focused on scientific objectivity, activist research, and the
democratization of scientific knowledge production. Her research
interests include also demarcation and the philosophy of the humanities.
Faik Kurtulmuş
is an assistant professor at Sabancı University. He works on issues
that lie at the intersection of political philosophy, social epistemology,
and philosophy of science. Recent publications have focused on justice
in the distribution of knowledge and public trust in science.
Zinhle Mncube is
a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Johannesburg and a PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at
the University of Cambridge. She works on issues related to
personalizing medicine, the role of genes in phenotypes, and philosophy
of race, broadly construed.
Michiru Nagatsu
is an associate professor at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability
Science, and Practical Philosophy, the University of Helsinki. He runs
the Economics and Philosophy Lab and the
HELSUS Methodology Lab. He uses a range of empirical approaches in his
research— including experimental philosophy, collaborations with
scientists, interviews, integrated history, and the philosophy of
science— to study conceptual and methodological questions in both
fundamental and applied sciences.
Henrik Thorén
is a researcher in theoretical philosophy at the department of
philosophy at Lund University and the principal investigator of the
project Risk, Values and Decision- making in the Economics of Climate
Change (RIVET). His research interests mostly concern philosophical
questions that arise out of scientifically studying sustainability
including for example interdisciplinarity and integrative models, values
in science and the role of science in public policy, as well as
examining specific and important concepts in sustainability research
such as resilience and ecosystem services.
Outline:
15.00 Introduction to the co-editors & invited authors (Luana Poliseli)
15.05 Introduction to the book ‘Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science’ (David Ludwig)
15.10 Philosophy or philosophies? Epistemology or epistemologies? (Inkeri Koskinen)
15.20 "Science must fall" and the call for decolonization in South Africa (Chad Harris)
15.30 The democratization of science (Faik Kurtulmus)
15.40 On local medical traditions (Zinhle Mncube)
15.50 Sustainability science as a management science: beyond the natural social-divide (Michiru Nagatsu & Henrik Thorén)
16.00 Final remarks (Luis Reyes-Galindo)
16.05 Q&A |