Following the Science: Political Epistemology and the COVID- 19 Epidemic in the UK

遵循科学：政治认识论和英国的 COVID-19 疫情

• 批准号: 2612464
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2612464
• 关键词: Following; Science; Political; Epistemology; COVID

Following the science. This refrain was frequently invoked byGovernment ministers in the UK in 2020 in order to construe aseparation between policy interventions and politics during theCOVID-19 epidemic. But what does it mean to follow thescience? This research project will consider both 'the science',in terms of factors that shape the production of scientificknowledge and policy recommendations, as well as the waysin which governments 'follow' this; in other words, how arethese scientific findings translated into policy? Through thisinvestigation it will consider the relationship between scienceand government policy by assessing the ways in which social,political and economic factors influence the science that isproduced in a definite context, the internal logic of variousmethods and disciplines that predominate contemporaryscience in a policy setting, and the ways in which governmentsuse those recommendations to formulate policy responses.Through a combination of critical realism and politicalepistemology, and incorporating insights from both sociologyand philosophy of science, it will seek to identify the causalprocesses that shaped the response to COVID-19 in the UKand use this case study to draw broader conclusions about theinteraction between sociological and philosophical factors andscientific knowledge in a public policy context.

遵循科学。2020年，英国政府部长们经常援引这一说法，以解释在2019冠状病毒病疫情期间政策干预与政治之间的分离。但是遵循科学是什么意思呢？这个研究项目将考虑“科学”，就影响科学知识和政策建议的生产的因素而言，以及政府“遵循”这一点的方式；换句话说，这些科学发现如何转化为政策？通过这次调查，它将考虑科学与政府政策之间的关系，通过评估社会，政治和经济因素影响在特定背景下产生的科学的方式，在政策设置中占主导地位的各种方法和学科的内在逻辑，以及政府使用这些建议制定政策反应的方式。通过批判现实主义和政治认识论的结合，并结合社会学和科学哲学的见解，它将试图确定影响英国对COVID-19反应的因果过程，并利用这个案例研究得出关于公共政策背景下社会学和哲学因素与科学知识之间相互作用的更广泛的结论。