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RESEARCH, TRUST AND POLICY workshop
Call for abstracts, dl 31 May
4-5 Oct 2018, University of Helsinki
In this workshop we explore the role of trust in research and policy. When
people trust one another, they can depend upon each other both epistemically
and socially. Trust is a crucial element in communication and transfer of
knowledge, and, when scientists work close to policy, they are expected to be
trustworthy in the eyes of citizens and policy makers. The importance of trust
becomes visible when either scientists or policy makers and citizens are faced
with distrust.
This two-day workshop explores the connection between science, trust and
policymaking. In policymaking people and groups with diverse backgrounds,
values and interests communicate with each other in order to make decisions.
When building trusting relationships, scientists, policymakers and laypeople
are faced with many questions: How to build trust and trustworthiness among
people? How can citizens assess the trustworthiness of scientific experts?
What do scientists need to do in order to earn the rational epistemic trust of
citizens? In the workshop, we are interested in having both theoretical and
empirical papers exploring these topics.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Creating and maintaining trust relationships between policymaking and
science
- How policy considerations bring forward new desiderata about trust in
scientific experts
- The sources of trust and distrust in science and scientific experts
- How and to what extent we can empirically measure trust in science
- How developments in scientific practice bring forward new considerations
about trust in science
- The role of communities in epistemic quality management in science/policy
relationships
- The value-free ideal and policy
- How much should extra-scientific considerations, such as cost-effectiveness,
count in scientific judgment
- Inductive risk and moral trust
- Individual as opposed to collective dimension of trust (i.e., can collective
entities be trusted?) and how the distinction relates to policy
Invited speakers:
Maya J. Goldenberg (University of Guelph)
Katherine Hawley (University of St Andrews)
Johanna Nurmi (University of Turku)
Judith Simon (University of Hamburg)
Pia Vuolanto (University of Tampere)
Call for Papers:
Up to four contributed papers will be accepted for presentation at the
workshop. We invite submission of short abstracts before May 31, 2018. Please
send abstracts of maximum 500 words to "evidenceandexpertise@gmail.com". All
submissions will be notified shortly thereafter.
If you have any question please contact Sofia Blanco Sequeiros at
