Conference and Workshop Support: Models and Prediction: A Research Workshop, University of California, San Diego; May 26-28, 2006

会议和研讨会支持：模型与预测：研究研讨会，加州大学圣地亚哥分校；

• 批准号: 0551355
• 负责人: Naomi Oreskes
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Workshop; Support; Models; Prediction

PROJECT SUMMARYThis proposal seeks funds to support a three-day Research Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, examining the role of models in science from a historical, philosophical, sociological and policy perspective. This interdisciplinary workshop will map the current state of the field, synthesize insights derived from different scientific and humanistic domains, and consider the implications for the use (and abuse)of models in public policy decision-making. Participants will include UCSD faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences; science studies graduate students; and 18-20 outside speakers. Outside speakers will include science studies scholars who are acknowledged experts on the topic, and scientists who are modelers and have an interest in the history, philosophy, or sociology of modeling. Funds are requested to cover travel costs of five outside speakers who will be coming from overseas. The international participants are leading scholars and an important component of the workshop. Funding for all other conference costs has beenraised from the UCSD Humanities Center, the UCSD Science Studies Program, and UCSD divisions of Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and ScrippsInstitution of Oceanography. The intellectual merit resides in the importance of understanding models as a ubiquitous tool of modern science, and a major input to policy decisions on such topics as global warming, ozone depletion, and arsenic in drinking water. Despite the attention paid to scientific modeling, there remains relatively little cross-pollination of ideas among scholars who work from the perspectives of individual disciplines either within science studies, or between science studies and the sciences. Specialist work based can be enhanced by a broader awareness of work done elsewhere, as well as by discussion with scientists who are modelers. This workshop will facilitate such awareness and discussion. In doing so, it will help scholars to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary practice of science, in which modeling figures prominently. The workshop is designed to have significant broader impact, as the organizers are convinced of the pertinence of science studies for the use of scientific knowledge in society. The workshop integrates research and education, complementing the pedagogical activities undertaken as part of an existing NSF Small Research and Training Grant, "Proof Persuasion and Policy" (PPP). Graduate students will be active participants, and organizing the workshop will be an important part of the professional development of the current postdoctoral fellow. The workshop will promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities and the sciences; several discussants will be UCSD scientists with modeling expertise. Contingent on the success of the workshop and the quality of the papers, the organizers hope to publish an edited book that brings together the key insights and results arrived at in the workshop. Ultimately, we hope that a better understanding of scientific modeling may facilitate wiser use of models in developing and evaluating public policies andhelp to obviate confusion and obfuscation among parties to public policy debates.

本提案寻求资金支持在加州大学圣地亚哥分校举办的为期三天的研究研讨会，从历史、哲学、社会学和政策的角度研究模型在科学中的作用。这一跨学科研讨会将绘制该领域的现状图，综合来自不同科学和人文领域的见解，并考虑在公共政策决策中使用(和滥用)模型的影响。参与者将包括加州大学圣迭戈分校人文、社会科学和自然科学的教职员工；科学研究研究生；以及18-20名外部演讲者。外部演讲者将包括在该主题上公认的专家的科学研究学者，以及对建模的历史、哲学或社会学感兴趣的模型师科学家。请拨经费以支付将来自海外的五名外部发言者的旅费。国际与会者是顶尖学者，也是研讨会的重要组成部分。所有其他会议费用的资金来自加州大学圣迭戈分校人文中心、加州大学圣迭戈分校科学研究计划和加州大学圣迭戈分校物理科学、生物科学和斯克里普斯海洋研究所。知识的价值在于理解模型作为现代科学无处不在的工具的重要性，以及对有关全球变暖、臭氧消耗和饮用水中砷等主题的政策决策的主要投入。尽管科学建模受到重视，但从科学研究内部或科学研究和科学之间的个别学科角度工作的学者之间的思想交叉授粉仍然相对较少。通过更广泛地了解在其他地方所做的工作，以及通过与作为建模人员的科学家的讨论，可以加强基于专业的工作。这次研讨会将促进这种认识和讨论。通过这样做，它将帮助学者们对当代科学实践有更深入、更全面的理解，其中建模扮演着突出的角色。该讲习班旨在产生重大而广泛的影响，因为组织者相信科学研究对于在社会中使用科学知识具有针对性。该讲习班整合了研究和教育，补充了作为现有NSF小额研究和培训补助金“证据说服和政策”(PPP)的一部分而开展的教学活动。研究生将是积极的参与者，组织研讨会将是当前博士后专业发展的重要组成部分。研讨会将促进人文和科学领域的跨学科合作；几位讨论者将是加州大学圣地亚哥分校具有建模专业知识的科学家。根据研讨会的成功和论文的质量，组织者希望出版一本经过编辑的书，汇集研讨会取得的关键见解和成果。最终，我们希望，更好地理解科学建模可以促进在制定和评估公共政策时更明智地使用模型，并有助于避免公共政策辩论各方之间的混乱和混淆。