iphilluh.bsky.social
News and musings from the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover. We do, among other things, a lot of philosophy of science!
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@iphilluh.bsky.social🤩Coming soon: Students of SOCRATES 🎙️ In my seminar, M.A. Philosophy of Science students at Leibniz University Hannover interviewed fellows of #SOCRATESgroup about expertise, health & science communication. Three episodes to be published soon, excited & so proud of the students! 🎧 #PhilSci #SciComm
Show Post2/2 that trust in science debate is taking place among philosophers in affluent Western countries & that it has been studied as a values-alignment problem. They argue that in developing countries TS stems less from concerns about science’s epistemic credibility & more from institutional failures.
Show Post1/2 Team member Maxim Pfaffenrot gave a talk at the SOPhiA 2026 conference. Examining the COVID-19 pandemic as an episode of fast science, he shows that scientists inevitably make non-epistemic value judgements under time constraints.
Show Post2/2 He argued for a positive role for scientist-bureaucrats as non-epistemic decision makers during fast science, advocating a separation of responsibilities between scientists and scientist-bureaucrats.
Show Post1/2 MAPS team member George K. Barimah presented a paper, co-authored with fellow MAPS member Nadia Ruiz, at the Values in Science in the Rest of the World workshop: “Trust in Science in Developing Countries: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.” In this paper, they highlight ...
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