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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Max Bautista-Perpinyà\, "Towards a political imagination of science"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/vwkzSdu-rTY \nSeries: Work-in-Progress \nSpeaker: Max Bautista-Perpinyà (UCLouvain) \nTitle: “Towards a political imagination of science.” \nAbstract \nIn this work-in-progress talk\, I’ll review two liberal progressive contributions to the literature on science and values that have been highly influential in the philosophy of science: Philip Kitcher’s Science in a Democratic Society (2011) and Matthew J. Brown’s Science and Moral Imagination (2020). I’ll contrast their idealized Deweyan notions of democracy and science with episodes in the history of ecology and environmentalism during the Spanish transition from the Francoist dictatorship towards contemporary democracy. I’ll focus on two communities of scientists working on forest and forestry issues. I will first compare their different sociotechnical imaginaries in a moment of wide historical contingency\, and then I’ll narrate how their imaginaries became concrete as parliamentary democracy consolidated in the 1980s. \nBrown and Kitcher’s contributions are worthwhile for different reasons. Brown situates imagination as a powerful self-transformative tool to become a better\, well-rounded scientist. However\, his reliance on empathy as a means to assess stakeholder legitimacy lacks teeth. Kitcher also relies excessively on affective work and the ethical norm for “mutual engagement”\, but he is able to transcend individual improvement by relying on the Deweyan notion that individuals not only have the freedom to participate in collective life\, but that our individual self-realisation is constituted through it. \nI have two major concerns with Brown and Kitcher’s work. Brown’s proposal for a better integration of science and values is\, by design\, ahistorical. His recommendations could have been addressed to any scientist in the history of humankind. Kitcher’s proposal for democratic reform\, by his approach to history\, idealizes historical conflict and ‘resolution’. This lack of historical specificity misses some of the most crucial cruxes of science\, politics\, and environmentalism today: the need to recognise the centrality of capitalism (and not an amorphous Anthropocene) in breeding social and environmental havoc\, the democratic threat posed by proposals for a technocratic management of nature\, and the new rise of fascism and its complete denial of environmental and social injustice. \nClass\, against what these philosophers argue\, matters. I propose to substitute Kitcher and Brown’s naïveté for a specific scientific class consciousness that contributes to ongoing (and old) discussions on the specific responsibilities and threats that scientists\, as scientists\, face.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-mar-7/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] CEFISES Seminar: Jan Baedke\, "Conceptual challenges for the return of the organism in developmental evolution"
DESCRIPTION:[Last-minute cancellation. The seminar will be postponed to a later date] \nSeries: MolDevBio \nSpeaker: Jan Baedke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) \nTitle: “Conceptual challenges for the return of the organism in developmental evolution” \nAbstract \nOrganisms are central for biology. However\, conceptualizing the unit of the organism is anything but easy. This talk discusses long-standing challenges to base biological reasoning and practice on the concept of organism. Currently\, after many decades dominated by the paradigm of the gene\, the organism is making a comeback in the bio- and biomedical sciences. It is again recognized as a causally efficacious\, autonomous\, and active unit that transcends the properties of genes and affects its own development and evolution – especially in fields like epigenetics\, niche construction theory\, and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo). This talk focuses on two conceptual challenges of today’s ‘return of the organism’\, related to how organisms’ internal organization and reciprocal relations with their environment should be conceptualized to inform new developmental and evolutionary research. \n 
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-mar-14/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Till Grüne-Yanoff\, "Modalities in Modeling: A Separate Scientific Practice?"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/rkvkuewTXDQ\n \nSeries: OLOFOS \nSpeaker: Till Grüne-Yanoff (Royal Institute of Technology) \nTitle: “Modalities in Modeling: A Separate Scientific Practice?”
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-mar-28/
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