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Evidence, Ideology, and Orthodoxy: Science in the university and the public sphere
Sponsored by Arizona State University and University of Cambridge
Date: Thursday 6 February - Saturday 8 February, 2014
Venue: Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, Arizona
Increasing polarisation of high-stakes political debates on one hand, and a persistent sense of alienation from established political institutions by publics in many affluent democracies on the other, create an urgent need for venues where controversial issues can be openly aired and explored. Can universities meet this need? When universities are the sites of debate about socially contested issues, what happens to the norms and standards of scientific and other scholarly evidence? What roles do and should academic experts, and expertise play in such debates?
More details about this conference can be found here.
The event is co-sponsored by
Centre for Law, Science & Innovation at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at ASU
Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
Professor Geoff Moggridge
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
Professor Huw Price
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Professor Jack Stilgoe
University College London (UCL)
Professor Charles Kennel
University of California San Diego
Dr Rob Doubleday
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge