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Choosing the Future of Science: The Social Organization of Scientific Inquiry

Saturday & Sunday, 20-21 April, 2013
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Advance registration is appreciated. Please email Eric Hatleback (enh8@pitt.edu) to register.

 

     Saturday     

9:30

Breakfast

10:00

Welcome and Introductions

10:15

Session 1: Still Haven't Found What We're Looking For?: Seeking Credit, Seeking Knowledge, Seeking Truth, and the Division of Epistemic Labor

Michael Strevens, New York University: “Herding and the Quest for Credit"

Elihu Gerson, Tremont Research Institute: "Emerging Varieties of Research Organization"

Rainer Hegselmann, University of Bayreuth: "Costs and Benefits of Cognitive Division of Labor and Epistemic Networking: An Agent-Based Simulation Study"

 

12:30

Lunch (on your own)

2:00

Session 2: Start (or Stop!) Spreadin' the News:  The Exchange and Spread of Information among Scientists (Part One)

Michael Dickson, University of South Carolina: "Theory from Chaos"

Alexandra Bradner, University of Kentucky : "Pharma Without Profit:  Using Open-Source Principles to Generate Big Data without Big Money"

 

3:30

coffee break

 

4:00

Session 3: Start (or Stop!) Spreadin' the News:  The Exchange and Spread of Information among Scientists (Part Two)

Miriam Solomon, Temple University: "The Evolution of Consensus Conferences"

Patrick Grim (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Daniel Singer (University of Pennsylvania), Aaron Bramson (University of Michigan), William Berger (University of Michigan), Christopher Reade (University of Michigan), Carissa Flocken (University of Michigan), Steven Fisher (University of Michigan) :
"Scientific Networks on Data Landscapes:  Question Difficulty, Epistemic Success, and Convergence"

 

 

5:30

Adjourn

 

 

 

     Sunday     

9:00

Breakfast

9:30

Session 4: Cops, Carrots, and Sticks:  Incentives, Innovation, Integrity, Policing, and Peer-Review

Carole Lee, University of Washington – Seattle: "Correcting Publication Bias in Medicine:  The Power and Limits of Prestige"

Benjamin Almassi, College of Lake County : "Reorganizing Peer Review in an ArXival Age"

Justin Bruner, University of California – Irvine : "Policing Epistemic Communities"

Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University: "Conservatism and the Scientific State of Nature"

 

12:30

Lunch (on your own)

2:00

Panel Discussion

 

3:30

Adjourn

 

 

 

Discussants

Chris Haufe (Case Western Reserve University)
Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Washington)

Organizing Committee

Kyle Stanford, Chair (UC Irvine, CPS Senior Visiting Fellow)
Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)
John Norton (University of Pittsburgh)
Jim Woodward (University of Pittsburgh)

Sponsors

Harvey & Leslie Wagner Endowment
Center for Philosophy of Science/University of Pittsburgh

 
 
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