Workshop on Biology and Law to be Held in Phoenix, Arizona March 24-25, 1995

我们的法律体系常常需要决策。法官和立法者必须经常解决、处理或明智地将科学问题纳入政策，这些问题本身就是由知识渊博的科学家激烈辩论的。我们如何才能最好地裁决与民主价值观一致的相互竞争的科学主张？历史学家/科学哲学家简·迈恩沙因（Jane Maienschein）、律师丹尼尔·斯特劳斯（Daniel Strouse）和生物学家詹姆斯·柯林斯（James Collins）组织了这次会议，目的是制定一个研究议程，探讨在宪政民主中如何解决相互矛盾的科学主张。传统上，科学研究、法律和政治哲学的学者缺乏共同的观点。他们有不同的证据概念和不同的解决方法。尽管如此，这些问题重叠了所有这些学科和科学。目前进行这种冲突解决的法律和政治社区也有重叠。事实上，法律制度和科学发展似乎是建立和稳定民主的核心。因此，我们需要在这种民主制度的背景下对相互竞争的科学主张的裁决进行跨学科的研究。本次研讨会承诺通过确定可研究的问题、有前途的方法和可用的机会，为这种跨学科研究制定研究议程。来自法律、生物学、哲学、社会和行为科学以及历史的专家将于3月24日和25日在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行会议，以制定这项研究议程。

Our legal system often requires decision-making. Judges and legislators must often resolve, address, or intelligently incorporate into policy, scientific issues that are themselves hotly debated by knowledgeable scientists. How can we best adjudicate competing scientific claims consistently with democratic values? An historian/philosopher of science, Jane Maienschein, a lawyer, Daniel Strouse, and a biologist, James Collins, have organized this conference in order to formulate a research agenda on questions of how conflicting scientific claims are resolved in a constitutional democracy. Traditionally, scholars in science studies, law, and political philosophy have lacked a common perspective. They have different conceptions of evidence and different approaches to resolution. Nonetheless, the issues overlap all these disciplines and the scientific. legal, and political communities in which such conflict resolution currently proceeds also overlap. Indeed, legal systems and scientific development seem to be central to establishing and stabilizing democracies. Consequently, we need an interdisciplinary study of the adjudication of competing scientific claims in the context of such democratic systems. This workshop promises to develop a research agenda for such interdisciplinary study by identifying researchable questions, promising approaches, and available opportunities. Experts from law, biology, philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and history will gather to be held in Phoenix Arizona March 24 and 25 to develop this research agenda.