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Desc: | Scientists and philosophers of science are increasingly attuned to the critical and legitimate roles that nonscientists - policymakers, publics, communities, stakeholders, activists, citizens, and subjects, to name a few - can play in inquiry. Their values, expertise, or refusal can make or break a research program and its impacts. Likewise, scientific evidence and technologies can lend their weight to extrascientific projects, whether scientists intend this or not. This course is about the relationships between science and nonscientists and the impacts these have, or ought to have, on scientific knowledge production and communication. On the one hand, we'll consider practices labeled transparent, participatory, and community-based research; community inclusion and engagement; citizen science; and efforts to democratize science. Under what conditions do these make science more or less trustworthy, reliable, or objective? On the other hand, we'll examine nonscientists' uptake, interpretation, and deployment of scientific projects. How might these advance, hinder, or change the aims of science, or the activities of scientists? Our research will be anchored in the literatures on science and values, feminist philosophy of science, and social epistemology of science, with forays into research ethics (broadly construed) and philosophy of the special sciences. |
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