Workshop: Philosophy of Science and Public Engagement; May 2020, Cincinnati, OH

研讨会：科学哲学与公众参与；

• 批准号: 1946951
• 负责人: Melissa Jacquart
• 金额: $ 3.45万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Philosophy; Science; Public; Engagement

This award supports a three-day workshop to be held in May 2020. The workshop will bring together philosophers of science and other academics and practitioners who participate in research on public outreach and public engagement as it relates to science. Workshop participants will focus on four key areas: Science communication (including public-facing events, writing, and social media), science education (including engaging with students and with educators about science), informal science education and outreach (such as through museums and libraries), and scientific work with communities (such as citizen science and community-based research). Workshop participants will identify and promote more meaningful broader impacts for philosophical research that includes public outreach and science education. The workshop will also serve to meet institutional goals for the University of Cincinnati's newly founded Center for Public Engagement with Science to strengthen connections with its community partners. The primary concrete deliverables from this workshop are four white papers, one on each of the indicated areas of public engagement; they will be submitted for presentation at pertinent conferences and professional society meetings. The workshop will serve to enhance the capacity for socially engaged philosophy of science. That capacity includes conducting philosophical research with broader social relevance, developing the practical implications of philosophical research (such as advancing public policy), and involving philosophy of science in public engagement with broader science endeavors including science education, science communication, and citizen science. The workshop will work towards the overarching goal by fortifying existing bridges with other disciplines relevant to public engagement with science including science communication, science education, and science and technology studies. The first two days of the workshop will consist in morning and early-afternoon lectures from experts on each of the four key areas indicated above, followed by interactive breakout sessions in the late afternoon on each topic. The third day will focus on developing philosophy of science's potential to contribute to these areas of public engagement with science. Some of the core questions to be addressed are the following. What do philosophers of science have to contribute to this area of public engagement? What are some ways in which that contribution be realized? What resources or discussions in other disciplines already exist? What research do philosophers need to do public engagement? What are potential challenges? The end goal of this workshop is the development of new research networks between philosophers of science and other communities that focus on public engagement with science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持将于 2020 年 5 月举办为期三天的研讨会。该研讨会将汇集科学哲学家以及参与与科学相关的公共宣传和公众参与研究的其他学者和从业者。研讨会参与者将重点关注四个关键领域：科学传播（包括面向公众的活动、写作和社交媒体）、科学教育（包括与学生和教育工作者进行科学交流）、非正式科学教育和推广（例如通过博物馆和图书馆）以及与社区的科学工作（例如公民科学和基于社区的研究）。研讨会参与者将确定并促进对哲学研究产生更有意义、更广泛的影响，包括公共宣传和科学教育。该研讨会还将有助于实现辛辛那提大学新成立的公众参与科学中心的机构目标，以加强与社区合作伙伴的联系。本次研讨会的主要具体成果是四份白皮书，针对每个指定的公众参与领域各一份；它们将提交给相关会议和专业协会会议进行介绍。该研讨会将有助于提高社会参与科学哲学的能力。这种能力包括开展具有更广泛社会意义的哲学研究，发展哲学研究的实际影响（例如推进公共政策），以及让科学哲学参与更广泛的科学活动，包括科学教育、科学传播和公民科学。该研讨会将通过加强与公众参与科学相关的其他学科（包括科学传播、科学教育和科学技术研究）的现有桥梁，努力实现总体目标。研讨会的前两天将包括专家在上午和下午就上述四个关键领域进行的讲座，然后在下午晚些时候就每个主题进行互动分组会议。第三天的重点是发展科学哲学为公众参与科学的这些领域做出贡献的潜力。需要解决的一些核心问题如下。科学哲学家必须为公众参与这一领域做出什么贡献？有哪些方式可以实现这一贡献？其他学科已有哪些资源或讨论？哲学家需要进行哪些研究才能进行公众参与？潜在的挑战是什么？本次研讨会的最终目标是在科学哲学家和其他关注公众参与科学的社区之间建立新的研究网络。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。