BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2016/newsitem/7290/5-7 -September-2016-5th-René-Descartes-Lectures-Worksh op-Science-Values-and-Democracy-Tilburg-The-Nether lands DTSTAMP:20160410T000000 SUMMARY:5th René Descartes Lectures & Workshop: Sc ience, Values and Democracy, Tilburg, The Netherl ands DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160905 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160907 LOCATION:Tilburg, The Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Every other year, a distinguished phil osopher visits Tilburg University and the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science to present the René Descartes Lectures. This year 's René Descartes Lecturer is Professor Heather Do uglas (University of Waterloo). Professor Douglas will deliver three lectures on the topic 'Science, Values and Democracy', each of which will be comm ented on by two renowned scholars. Parallel to the lectures, we host a workshop on the same topic. The lectures will explore the relationships among science, values, and expertise in modern democrat ic societies. Science, although the best way to ga in rich empirical knowledge, cannot be considered value-free. As such, scientists' role in public di scourse and in advisory roles is more complex than simply giving us 'the facts.' In democratic socie ties, we must confront questions of how to make sc ience advising appropriately accountable in our po litical systems, while protecting scientists from pressures which would damage the integrity of thei r advice. In the public discourse, citizens have m ore roles to play than simply being passive receiv ers of scientific information. This means we need to articulate these roles and create avenues for e xercising them. Because of the need for values in science and because this opens science to new mode s of engagement and criticism, we need to think th rough our institutional structures to ensure that the normative demands of good science and good gov ernance can both be met. For more information vi sit https://descarteslectures2016.wordpress.com/ For this workshop, we invite submissions in the fo rm of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) by 15 May 2016. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Every other year, a distinguished philosopher visits Ti lburg\n University and the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and\n Philosophy of Science to present the René Descartes\n Lectures . This year's René Descartes Lecturer is\n Professor Heather Douglas (University of Wate rloo). Professor\n Douglas will deliver three lectures on the topic 'Science,\n Values and Democracy', each of which will be commented on by two\n renowned scholars. Parallel to the lec tures, we host a workshop on the same topic.\n

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The lectures will explore the rel ationships among science,\n values, and exper tise in modern democratic societies. Science,\n although the best way to gain rich empirical kn owledge, cannot\n be considered value-free. A s such, scientists' role in public\n discours e and in advisory roles is more complex than simpl y\n giving us 'the facts.' In democratic soci eties, we must confront\n questions of how to make science advising appropriately\n accoun table in our political systems, while protecting\n scientists from pressures which would damage the integrity of\n their advice. In the publ ic discourse, citizens have more roles\n to p lay than simply being passive receivers of scienti fic\n information. This means we need to arti culate these roles and\n create avenues for e xercising them. Because of the need for\n val ues in science and because this opens science to n ew modes of\n engagement and criticism, we ne ed to think through our\n institutional struc tures to ensure that the normative demands of\n good science and good governance can both be me t.\n

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For more in formation visit\n http s://descarteslectures2016.wordpress.com/\n

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For this worksho p, we invite submissions in the form of\n ext ended abstracts (up to 1000 words) by 15 May 2016. \n

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