KFG 43: SOCRATES – Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information

KFG 43：苏格拉底 – 专家知识和基于科学的信息的社会信誉和可信度

• 批准号: 470816212
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Philosophie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Advanced Studies Centres in SSH
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/470816212?language=en
• 关键词: KFG; 43; SOCRATES; Social; Credibility

To fulfill their societal role, the sciences must enjoy some level of trust as an authoritative source of credible and reliable knowledge about the world and at the same time be worthy of that epistemic trust—two goals between which there is often some tension. When controversial issues are at stake, trust in science decreases and common public knowledge often breaks down. Understanding how science can continue to serve as a source of shared knowledge, which not only enjoys trust but also merits it, is one of the most pressing challenges we are facing today. The Center for Advanced Studies SOCRATES aims to address this challenge by investigating the implicit and frequently unanalyzed philosophical presuppositions underlying different attitudes and practices that are significant for trust in science and scientific credibility. By providing a forum for interactions among philosophers across subdisciplines as well as a forum for discursive interdisciplinary engagement among philosophers, sociologists, researchers in communications and media studies, and other social scientists, SOCRATES aims to work toward a comprehensive and coherent philosophical treatment of scientific credibility and trust in science. Desired outcomes include detailed and nuanced characterizations of the different processes by which highly specialized scientific expertise can be credentialed or challenged and undermined, as well as an account of scientific trustworthiness that includes context-specific strategies for how science can improve its credibility or trustworthiness and how trust and trustworthiness can be well-calibrated to one another. To achieve this, the center focuses on the following issues of concern: (i) Trust, trustworthiness, and social values; (ii) Consensus, controversy, and uncertainty-management; (iii) Trustworthiness, the spread of information, and the mediatization of science and (iv) Trustworthiness and the globalization of science. In each of the two funding periods, the Centre will combine theoretical analysis with a systematic and sustained investigation of the problem of scientific credibility in three focal areas. The first funding period will focus on (1) climate science and the climate crisis, (2) scientific expertise in the health sciences (focusing in particular on expertise and trust in the corona pandemic), and (3) credibility within and of the behavioral sciences. The second funding period will be devoted to (4) artificial intelligence and machine learning (5) emerging technologies and (6) Earth system and complexity sciences.

为了履行其社会角色，科学必须作为关于世界的可信和可靠知识的权威来源而享有一定程度的信任，同时值得这种认知信任——这两个目标之间经常存在一些紧张关系。当有争议的问题受到威胁时，对科学的信任就会降低，公共知识往往会崩溃。了解科学如何继续作为共享知识的来源，不仅赢得信任，而且值得信任，是我们今天面临的最紧迫的挑战之一。苏格拉底高级研究中心旨在通过调查不同态度和实践背后隐含且经常未经分析的哲学预设来应对这一挑战，这些态度和实践对于科学信任和科学可信度具有重要意义。通过为跨学科哲学家之间的互动提供一个论坛，以及为哲学家、社会学家、传播和媒体研究人员以及其他社会科学家之间的话语跨学科参与提供一个论坛，苏格拉底旨在致力于对科学可信度和对科学的信任进行全面和连贯的哲学处理。期望的结果包括对不同过程的详细和细致的描述，通过这些过程可以对高度专业化的科学专业知识进行认证或挑战和破坏，以及对科学可信度的描述，其中包括科学如何提高其可信度或可信度以及如何相互校准信任和可信度的特定背景策略。为实现这一目标，中心重点关注以下问题： (i) 信任、可信度和社会价值观； (ii) 共识、争议和不确定性管理； (iii) 可信度、信息传播和科学媒体化，以及 (iv) 可信度和科学全球化。在两个资助期间的每一个资助期间，该中心都将把理论分析与对三个重点领域的科学可信度问题进行系统和持续的调查相结合。第一个资助期将重点关注（1）气候科学和气候危机，（2）健康科学领域的科学专业知识（特别关注新冠大流行的专业知识和信任），以及（3）行为科学内部和行为科学的可信度。第二个资助期将专门用于（4）人工智能和机器学习（5）新兴技术以及（6）地球系统和复杂性科学。