Conference “Epistemic groups and collaborative research in science”

MSH Lorraine, 3ème étage, “international room”,

91 avenue de la Libération, Nancy

Monday December 17, 2012

09:00 – 09:20registrationandcoffee

09:20 – 09:30introduction and welcome (Thomas Boyer and Cyrille Imbert)

chair: Jeroen de Ridder

09:30 – 10:30Erik Olsson (Lund University, Sweden)

''ProbabilisticUpdatinginEpistemicGroups:TheLaputaModel''

10:30 – 11:15 Conor Mayo-Wilson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

"TheDynamicsofScientificCollaboration"

11:15 – 11:35 coffee break chair: Thomas Boyer

11:35 – 12:20 Nicolas Lechopier (University of Lyon 1, France)

"EpistemicCommunitiesandReciprocity.Case-studyofanEnvironmental- HealthResearchPartnership"

12:20 – 14:15 lunch (at “Pizzeria Monbois”, Crous, 138 av. Libération, see map)

chair: Anna Zielsinka

14:15 – 15:00 Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

"Investigating Competition and Cooperation in Science"

15:00 – 15:45 Thomas Boyer and Cyrille Imbert (University Lille 1 and Archives Henri Poincaré, France)

"Whyshouldscientific groups form:modelingfromthemicro"

15:45 – 16:15 coffee break

chair: Conor Mayo-Wilson

16:15 – 17:00 Anna Zielinska (University Paris Descartes, France)

"Ethics committees without bioethical theory. Decision procedure in the evaluation of research protocols in biomedicine."

17:00 – 18:00 K. Brad Wray (State University of New York, USA)

"TheImpactofCollaborationontheEpistemicCultureofScience"

Tuesday December 18, 2012

chair: Thomas Boyer

09:00 – 10:00Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University, USA)

"Accountability and values in radically collaborative research"

10:00 – 10:45 Mads Goddiksen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

"CollaborationandAuthorship"

10:45 – 11:00coffee break

chair: Anouk Barberousse

11:00 – 11:45 Koray Karaca (University of Wuppertal, Germany)

"Thedata-selectionprocessoftheATLASexperimentasadistributed cognitivesystem"

11:45 – 12:30 Meghan Dupree (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

"ValuablebutnotViable:CollaborationsasKnowledgeProducing Communities"

12:30 – 14:00 lunch. (buffet, MSH Lorraine, 3ème étage, near the conference room).

chair: Cyrille Imbert

14:00 – 14:45 Eddie Soulier and Elie Abi-Lahoud (University of Technology of Troyes, France and University College Cork, IrelandUK)

"SocialEpistemologyforKnowledgeFosteringinOnlineCommunitiesof Intelligence"

14:45 – 15:30 RogierdeLanghe(TilburgUniversity,TheNetherlands)

"ToSpecializeortoInnovate?AnInternalistAccountofPluralistic Ignorance"

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

chair: Rogier de Langhe

16:00 – 17:00 Jan Sprenger (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

“A socio-epistemic variant of the No Alternatives Argument”"Modeling Individual Expertise"

19:30Conference dinner (at Comptoir Saint Michel, rue Saint Michel, see map)

Wednesday December 19, 2012

chair: Ryan Muldoon

09:00 – 10:00Denis Bonnay (University Paris Ouest, IRePh & IHPST)

"What people think: judgment aggregation and opinion research"

10:00 – 10:45 Genco Guralp (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

"CollaborativeResearchinCosmology:DiscoveringtheAccelerationofthe Universe"

10:45 – 11:00 coffee break

chair: Paul Egré

11:00 – 11:45 Anouk Barberousse, Henri Galinon and Marion Vorms (University Lille 1, University of Clermont, University of Paris 1, France)

"CommunityModelingSystems:NewWaveScientificCollaboration"

11:45 – 12:30 Alain Trognon and Martine Batt (University of Lorraine, France)

"From results on Social Psychology of Collective Induction in Experimental Groups to Hypothesis on Epistemology of Collective Induction in Scientist’s Groups"

12:30 – 14:15 lunch (at “Pizzeria Monbois”, Crous, 138 av. Libération, see map)

chair: Jan Sprenger

14:15 – 15:00 Jeroen de Ridder (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

"WhatCouldGroupKnowledgeBe?"

15:00 – 15:45 Paul Égré (ÉNS, France) and Olivier Roy (Münich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Germany)

"Iscommonknowledgeneededforcoordination?"

15:45 – 16:15coffee break chair: Denis Bonnay

16:15 – 17:15Christian List (London School of Economics, UK)

"Threekindsofcollectiveattitude"

Practical information

  • Way to the “Pizzeria Monbois”, Crous, 138 av. Libération, Nancy (which serves other things than pizzas). (650m, 10 minute walk)

  • Way to the conference dinner (1.5km, 20 minute walk)

address: Comptoir Saint Michel, rue Saint-Michel,54000 Nancy, Lorraine, France (20 min walk)