Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Pragmatism

该奖项来自科学与社会计划的科学，工程和技术组成部分的道德和价值观，是为卡尔米切姆2006-2007学年的专业发展奖学金。来自科学与社会研究中的哲学和伦理学领域，米切姆将与小罗杰·皮尔克合作。和其他人在环境科学合作研究所（科罗拉多大学，博尔德）的科学和技术政策研究中心，以提高和扩大他在不确定性下的决策分析技能。这将主要涉及他在统计学，概率和决策科学方面的培训。此外，他的研究将致力于在不确定性下的决策科学和约翰杜威的经典美国实用主义之间架起一座桥梁。 因此，这个专业发展奖学金将寻求推进米切姆的决策科学知识的杜威务实的关注，以促进科学的社会效益的背景下。在2006年秋季学期，米切姆将把全部时间投入到决策科学的技术方面的培训中，处理不确定性下的决策，并研究杜威思想的那些方面，这些方面可能与这些领域的科学进步有关。在2007年春季学期，米切姆将与皮尔克一起教授一个关于实用主义和不确定性下决策的研究生研讨会。 这项拟议的培训和研究将促进对科学和技术的哲学和伦理学的认识和理解，并可能促进对决策科学的认识和理解。尽管在科学、技术和工程伦理学中，不确定性下的决策至关重要，但这些领域的伦理学研究对相关决策科学的关注却很少。在决策科学中，与更广泛的实用主义利益联盟也有潜在的好处，以提高科学，技术和工程的社会效益。 这一拟议的培训和研究也将直接导致研究生水平的决策研讨会下的不确定性和实用主义的教学。作为一个跨学科的项目，从兴趣和以前的贡献，科学，技术和工程的伦理，它也有望提高科学和工程研究和教育的科学和社会层面更普遍。最后，由于它将把科学知识带入哲学和科学、技术和社会研究的研究和教育中，因此可以预期它将有益于非技术学生和科学和工程以外的学者的一般科学教育。

This award from the Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology component of the Science and Society Program is for a Professional Development Fellowship for Carl Mitcham for academic year 2006-2007. Coming from the areas of philosophy and ethics in Science and Society studies, Mitcham will work with Roger Pielke Jr. and others at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (University of Colorado, Boulder) to improve and expand his skills in the analysis of decision making under uncertainty. This will involve primarily his undergoing training in statistics, probability, and the decision sciences. In addition, his research will work to bridge the science of decision making under uncertainty and the classic American pragmatism of John Dewey. This Professional Development Fellowship will thus seek to advance Mitcham's knowledge of the decision sciences in the context of Deweyan pragmatic concerns for advancing the social benefit of science. During the Fall semester 2006 Mitcham will devote full time to his training in the technical aspects of the decision sciences dealing with decision making under uncertainty and on research into those aspects of Dewey's thought that may be relevant to the appreciation or incorporation of scientific advances in these areas. During Spring semester 2007 Mitcham will team teach with Pielke a graduate seminar on pragmatism and decision making under uncertainty. This proposed training and research will advance knowledge and understanding in the philosophy and ethics of science and technology and potentially in the decision sciences as well. Despite the central importance of decision making under uncertainty in the ethics of science, technology, and engineering, ethical research in these areas has paid only modest attention to the relevant decision sciences. In the decision sciences there is also potential benefit from an alliance with the more broadly conceived interests in pragmatism for enhancing the social benefit of science, technology, and engineering. This proposed training and research will also lead directly to the teaching of a graduate level seminar on decision making under uncertainty and pragmatism. As an interdisciplinary project that grows out of interests and previous contributions to the ethics of science, technology, and engineering, it also promises to enhance the Science and Society dimensions of science and engineering research and education more generally. Finally, because it will bring scientific knowledge into research and education in philosophy and science, technology, and society studies, it can be expected to benefit the general scientific education of nontechnical students and scholars outside the sciences and engineering.