A conference on Science and Democracy
2024-09-09 08:00 - 2024-09-11 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Newman House, UCD, 86 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland
PERITIA Network of Research on Trust and Expertise, UCD
&
SciDem: University of Oslo Research Project on Science and Democracy

A conference on
Science and Democracy

Programme

Monday September 9
Newman House (MoLI)
86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

Registration (free but essential)

9.30-10.00 Registration, tea/coffee

10.00 – 10.30 Organisers’ Welcome and Introductions
Maria Baghramian (UCD)
Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo)
Silvia Ivani (UCD)

10.30-12.00 – Parallel Session 1
10.30-11.10 Science, Bad Beliefs, and Network Vulnerability
Sergiu Spatan (Dresden University of Technology)
11.10-11.50 Democratic Governance as Risk Management for Big Science Collaborations
Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins University) Vitaly Pronskikh (University of Pittsburgh) & Helene Sorgner (University of Klagenfurt)
11.50-12.30 How the Attempt to Cleanse Public Discourse of Misinformation Undermines Science and Rational Inquiry
David Thunder (University of Navarra Pamplona)

10.30-12.30 – Parallel Session 2
10.30-11.10 Authority and responsibility: the case of novel research
Mason Majszak (University of Bern) & Federica Bocchi (University of Copenhagen)
11.10- 12.00 Modelling Scientists and Public Interactions
Filippo Riscica Lizzio (University of Bologna)

12.30-2.00 Lunch break

14.00-16.00 – Parallel Session 4
14.00-14.40 Patient involvement as Epistocracy
Ben Davies (University of Sheffield)
14.40-15.20 Expert Testimony and Moral Encroachment in Vaccine Hesitancy.
Carline Klijnman (UCD)

14.00 -1600 – Parallel Session 3 (Graduate panel I)
14.00-14.40 Public Reason, Values in Science, and Democracy
Jesse Hamilton ( University of Pennsylvania & LSE)
14.40-15.20 Challenges to Cultivating Communicative Rationality: An Inner Critique of Habermasian Discourse Theory and the Role of Scientific Expertise in Democratic Governance
Antonio Pio De Mattia (UCD)
15.20-16.00 Technocratic Elements in Democracy: Unelected, Unaccountable and Illegitimate?
Lucas Dijker (UCD)

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break

4.30 – 5.30 – Invited Session 1
Science and Democracy: Defining responsible research in a political world
Heather Douglas (Michigan State University)

Chair: Luke Drury (RIA and DIAS)

7.00 Conference Dinner

Tuesday September 10
Newman House (MoLI)
86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

10.00- 12.00 – Parallel Session 5
10.00-10.40 Normalizing Uncertainty: on science communication in times of peace and the reversibility of democratic decisions
Fabio Paglieri (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR Rome)
10.40- 11.20 No Academia without Democracy? Reflections from Israel
Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv University)
11.20-12.00 A Critical (Re-)Assessment Of Institutional Epistemic Humility: Lessons From a Pandemic Crisis
Melanie Altanian (University of Freiburg) & Silvia Ivani (UCD)

10.00-12.00 – Parallel Session 6 (Graduate Panel II)
10.00-10.40 Science, Expertise, and Technocratic Domination: A Case for Democratic Supervision
Rory Kent (King’s College, University of Cambridge)
10.40-11.20 Transparency and Public Trust in Science
Emily Scholfield (Johns Hopkins University)
11.20-12.00 Quality of Life and Public Policy – Well-being and Political Decision-making
Paal Fredrik Skjørten Kvarberg (University of Oslo)

12.00 -14.00 Lunch Break

14.00- 16.00 – Parallel Session 7
14.00-14.40. Mistrust of Science: as a Failure of Collective Decision-Making
Gabriele Contessa (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
14.40-15.20. Value Divergence and Democratic Science
Michael Pope (Harvard University, Embedded EthiCS pProgram)
15.20-16.00 Scientific Recommendations in Times of Crisis
Mikkel Gerken (University of Southern Denmark & Inland Norway University)

14.00-16.00- Parallel Session 8
14..00-14.40 Democracy and Climate Crisis
Alexa Zellentin (UCD)
14.40-15.20 The Supranational Institutionalisation of Legislative Science Advice: What Role for The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change?
Helena Seibicke (University of Oslo)
15.20-16.00 Do scientists deliberate? The role of collective deliberation in scientific collaboration and justification
Vasiliki Xiromeriti (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University)

Coffee break 16.00-16.30

16.30-17.30 – Invited Session 2
Collectivizing Expert Testimony
Finnur Ulf Dellsén (University of Iceland)
Chair: Maria Baghramian (UCD and University of Oslo)

17.30-19.00 Address by Prof Orla Feely, President of UCD, followed by a reception

Wednesday. September 11
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

9.00-11.00 – Invited Panel: Science, Policy, and Democracy
9.00-9.40 Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo): Democratization of Expertise: the epistemic track
9.40-10.20 Daniel Kaiser (ALLEA, Berlin): Science Advice and Policy: The role of the Academies
10.20-1100 Joseph Lacey (UCD): Political Advocacy and Democratic Spectatorship – Four Postures for Winning and Maintaining Political Support

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.30 – Invited Session 3
Science, Democracy, and the Public: Constructive critique vs. collateral damage
Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol)
Chair: Jane Suiter (DCU)

Wittgenstein, Newman, and Hinge Epistemology
2024-09-09 08:00 - 2024-09-11 13:00
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The conference, organised jointly by UCD Newman Center for the Study of Religions and the PERITIA Nework of Resech on Trust and Expertise, explores the connections between the area of research in epistemology known as “hinge epistemology”, inspired by the last writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the views of philosopher and theologian St. John Henry Newman (1801-90), with a view to developing new insights both into hinge epistemology and Newman studies.
Wittgenstein, Newman, and Hinge Epistemology
Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th December 2024.
Newman House (Museum of Literature Ireland). 86 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
A hybrid conference. Zoom links will be sent to registered participants.
Organisers: Prof. Maria Baghramian (UCD) and Assoc. Prof. Daniel Esmonde Deasy (UCD).
Programme
Day 1: Monday 9 December
9.00-9.20 Registration and Welcome.
9.20-11.20 Parallel Session 1 (Old Physics Theatre):
9.20-10.00 Yoen Qian-Laurent (Sorbonne Université): ‘Newman and Wittgenstein: A Pascalian Genealogy’.
10.00-10.40 Twan Stiekel (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): ‘Hinge-Epistemology and the Universality of Empirical Knowledge’.
10.40-11.20 Eliora Henzler (University of Oxford): ‘Accordion Muscles—The ‘Hinge-Certainties’ View of Delusions on Collective Responsibility for Beliefs’.
9.20-11.20 Parallel Session 2 (The Salon):
9.20-10.00 ONLINE: Mohammadhadi Soleimani & Davood Hosseini (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran): ‘Wright on Hinge Propositions; Resolving a Problem’.
10.00-10.40 Joshua Maffuccio (UC Irvine): ‘ Newman and Hinges: Nature’s Primacy, Reason’s Personality, and Certainty’s Versatility’.
10.40-11.20 Louise Gordon (St. Patrick’s University, Maynooth): ‘Could Mathematics be a Hinge Commitment for John Henry Newman?’.
11.20-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.00 Invited Speaker 1 (Old Physics Theatre):
Annalisa Coliva (UC Irvine), ‘Religious Hinges?’.
13.00-14.20 Lunch break.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 3 (Old Physics Theatre):
14.20-15.00 Paweł Grad (University of Warsaw): ‘Hidden Grounds: On the Rational Profile of Religious Hinges’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Yang Zhouwanyue Nata (LMU München): ‘Hinge Epistemology of Mathematical Understanding’.
15.40 -16.20 ONLINE: Russell Ming (UC Irvine): ‘Conciliationism & Hinge Epistemology’.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 4 (The Salon):
14.20-15.00 Susan Lucas (Team Rector, Parish of East Ham): ‘The Hinges of Doctrine: How the Door Turns: Wittgenstein, Newman, Lindbeck, and the Contested Doctrine of Marriage in the Church of England’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Joe Milburn & Thomas Marré (University of Navarra): ‘Virtuous Hinge Epistemology: Or Why Hinge Epistemologists Need Epistemic Prudence’
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Christian Emrich (Fordham University): ‘Defending Newman’s Quasi-Fideism’.
16.20-16.40 Coffee Break.
16.40-18.00 Invited Speaker 2 (Old Physics Theatre):
Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton): ‘Passionate Commitment to a System of Reference’.
19.30 Conference Dinner.

Day 2: Tuesday 10 December
9.20-10.40 Invited Speaker 3 (Old Physics Theatre):
ONLINE: Duncan Pritchard (UC Irvine): ‘Quasi-Fideism and Virtuous Anti-Evidentialism: Wittgenstein and Newman’.
10.40-11.00 Coffee break.
11.00-13.00 Parallel Session 5 (Old Physics Theatre):
11.00-11.40 ONLINE: Jackson Hawkins (Brigham Young University): ‘Towards a Wittgensteinian ‘Hinge Ethics’: A Hinge Epistemological Approach to Absolute Value in Wittgenstein’.
11.40-12.20 Nicola Chadwick: ‘A Tale of Two Hinges: Propositional and Doxastic Hinge Commitments in Duncan Pritchard’s Non-Belief Hinge Epistemology’.
12.20-13.00. Matthias Statzkowski (Humboldt-Universität): ‘’Two problems with the transcendental interpretation of epistemic hinges in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty’.
11.00-13.00 Parallel Session 6 (The Salon):
11.00-12.00 Christopher Oldfield (University of Cambridge): ‘Thinking with Assent while Living with Doubts: Question, Doubts and Modes of Holding Propositions’.
12.00-13.00 Angelo Bottone (University College Dublin): ‘Wittgenstein’s Copy of The Grammar of Assent: A New Insight into His Engagement with Newman’.
13.00-14.20 Lunch break.
14.20-16.00 Parallel Session 7 (Old Physics Theatre):
14.20-15.00 Rajeev Dutta (UC Irvine): ‘Are Delusions Hinges?’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Qihe Sun Damon (UC Irvine): ‘Does Crispin Wright’s Hinge Epistemology imply that Skepticism is Rationally Unsustainable?’
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Joanna Lawson (Oklahoma State University): ‘Hinge Commitments as Core Normative Concepts’.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 8 (The Salon):
14.20-15.00 Modesto Gómez Alonso (University of Seville): ‘Unconditional Assent for Hinge Epistemologists’.
15.00-15.40 Jakob Ohlhorst (VU Amsterdam): ‘Newman, Fundamentalism, and the Moral Problem of Demarcation’.
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany): ‘What Can John Henry Newman Teach to the Hinge Epistemologists?’.
16.20-16.40 Coffee Break.
16.40-18.00 Invited Speaker 4 (Old Physics Theatre):
Crispin Wright (University of Stirling): ‘What are epistemic ‘Hinges’ and what might a ‘hinge epistemology’ be?’.
18.00 Close of the conference.
