Dear ISHers,

Please find attached the latest ISHPSSB newsletter.
You can also find it online here:
https://www.ishpssb.org/news/newsletters/305-newsletter-volume-35-no-1-issue-66-aug-2024


And I am also forwarding 2 lecture announcements.

Best regards,
Lucie

The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
invites you to join us for our 65th Annual Lecture Series Talk. Attend in
person in room 1008 in the Cathedral of Learning (10th Floor)  or visit our
live stream on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.

The Annual Lecture Series, the Center’s oldest program, was established in
1960, the year when Adolf Grünbaum founded the Center. Each year the series
consists of six to eight lectures, about three quarters of which are given
by philosophers, historians, and scientists from other universities.



*ALS – **Thomas Ryckman*

Friday, September 27  @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT



*Title: Niels Bohr: Transcendental Physicist*

*Abstract:*

While it would be unwarranted to label Bohr as “neo-Kantian” or indeed
adherent of any philosophical school, his understanding of quantum theory
crucially employs an intricate transcendental argument. Bohr deemed the
quantum postulate, or “wholeness” of interaction between agency of
measurement and atomic system, to call into question a core epistemological
distinction between subject and object familiar in the concept of
‘observation’ from everyday life and classical physics. Re-conceptualizing
that distinction led to redefinition of the term ‘phenomenon’, a
corresponding non-representationalist account of the wave function, and to
situating the notion of objectivity within “conditions of the possibility
of unambiguous communication”.

Zoom at https://pitt.zoom.us/s/99943669767

YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.









The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
invites you to join us for our upcoming lecture. This lecture will be live
streamed on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg or

you can join with Zoom at https://pitt.zoom.us/s/94500243796.

Featured Former Fellow* – * *Soazig Le Bihan*

September 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

*Title:* *How to Secure Public Trust in Value-Laden Science – A Fiduciary
Model.*

*Abstract:*

Many philosophers of science agree that science cannot, and in some
contexts should not, be value-free. Values, whether epistemic or not,
influence scientific practices in multiple ways (See Elliott 2022 and
references therein). One worry is that value influence undermines public
trust (Bright 2018, Lusk 2021).  Public trust in value-laden science may
not be warranted unless the values involved align with the public’s. The
question is thus: how to conceive of value influence so as to ensure public
trust in value-laden science? One proposed remedy to this conundrum is to
require that scientists appeal to democratic values (Kourany 2010, Inteman
2015, Elliott 2017, Schroeder 2021, 2022 Lusk 2021). Democratic processes,
after all, are a well-worn legitimization tool for authority. However, I
argued that this strategy faces serious challenges, including the problems
of marginalization and polarization (Le Bihan, 2023). In this talk, I offer
an alternative model—The Fiduciary Model. I propose to import some of the
concepts from Fiduciary Political Theory (FPT) to the field of Science and
Values.  FPT advocates defend a fiduciary model of government authority
(Leib and Galoob 2016, Criddle at al. 2018, Galoob and Leib 2018). I argue
that a fiduciary model of value-laden science could warrantee public trust.



This talk is online-only. Follow along via Zoom:
https://pitt.zoom.us/s/94500243796

It will also be live streamed on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.



*Get to Know the Former Fellow:*

*Where are you now?*

University of Montana

*What are you working on?*

A book! *Problems and Possibilities, A Pragmatic View of Scientific
Understanding. *

*Favorite memory of The Center?*

The weekly reading group and banana bread ?

*Greatest non-professional achievement since leaving the Center (can be
anything from running a marathon to organizing your sock drawer!)?*

I helped building a 6-foot fence all around an exotic animal sanctuary so
that the sanctuary could abide by new regulations from the USDA.

*Best book/movie/tv you’ve seen lately?*

*Everything Everywhere All at Once. *And also: *The Boy and the Heron*