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

该奖项支持将于2020年5月举行的为期三天的研讨会。研讨会将汇集科学哲学家和其他学者和从业人员，他们参与与科学有关的公共宣传和公众参与研究。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（如通过博物馆和图书馆），以及与社区的科学工作（如公民科学和基于社区的研究）。研讨会的参与者将确定和促进哲学研究，包括公共宣传和科学教育更有意义的更广泛的影响。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色文件，其中一份涉及公众参与的每个指定领域;这些文件将提交相关会议和专业协会会议。讲习班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相关性的哲学研究，发展哲学研究的实践意义（如推进公共政策），并使科学哲学参与更广泛的科学努力，包括科学教育，科学传播和公民科学。讲习班将努力实现总体目标，加强与公众参与科学的其他学科的现有桥梁，包括科学传播、科学教育和科学技术研究。研讨会的头两天将由专家在上午和下午早些时候就上述四个关键领域中的每一个领域进行讲座，然后在下午晚些时候就每个主题举行互动式分组会议。第三天将侧重于开发科学哲学的潜力，以促进公众参与科学的这些领域。需要解决的一些核心问题如下。科学哲学家在这个公共参与领域有什么贡献？实现这种贡献的一些方式是什么？在其他学科中已经存在哪些资源或讨论？哲学家需要做哪些研究来进行公众参与？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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.