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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-petronella-randell-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Amiya Hashkes (58łÔąĎ & Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amiya Hashkes (58łÔąĎ & Stirling)
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-amiya-hashkes-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Viviane Fairbank (58łÔąĎ & Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58łÔąĎ & Stirling) \nShould Science Journalists Know About Science?\nDespite scientific evidence to the contrary\, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher’s unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of “both sides”: those who thought there was a causal link between vaccines and autism\, and those who did not. Many commentators blamed journalists for the avoidable\, unfortunate results that followed\, including measles outbreaks among unvaccinated children in the US and UK. \nThe inclination is to interpret the MMR-vaccine case as showing not the impossibility of good journalism on politicized scientific issues\, but rather the dangers of bad journalism: if science journalists had done their job properly\, the idea goes\, their work would have served to illuminate scientific knowledge instead of obfuscating it. This prompts the question: In what sense did journalists fail to grasp the relevant science regarding vaccines and autism\, as their critics have claimed? And\, more generally\, to what epistemic norms ought we hold science journalists today? I call this the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism (ECSJ). \nIn this paper\, I aim to answer the ECSJ by bringing together insights from practicing journalists and journalism educators\, scholars of science communication\, and epistemologists. In §1\, I detail the MMR-vaccine case and outline the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism. In §2\, I present the dominant answer to the ECSJ in the science communication and journalism education literature\, which I call the Knowledge-Based Solution\, and I argue that it is unconvincing: knowledge of science is neither sufficient nor necessary for good science journalism. In §3\, I propose an alternative\, which I call the Confirmation-Based Solution\, and I show that it is able to make sense of the MMR-vaccine case and others in a satisfying way. In §4\, I turn to recent debates about journalistic objectivity\, and I argue that the Confirmation-Based Solution can respond to important concerns voiced by journalists and their audiences. §5 discusses my proposal in the context of philosophical debates about epistemic norms of assertion. §6 concludes.
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) \nShould have Known and Epistemically Appropriate Belief\nSometimes people don’t know things they should have known. For instance\, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don’t know\, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they’re epistemically appropriate to believe? Call the view that it can “should-have-known impurism.” If the cardiologist believes the usual treatment for a certain type of heart disease is best but should have known that an alternative treatment outperformed it in a recent large study\, it seems the cardiologist isn’t believing as she should. In this paper\, I dig into the reasoning behind or suggested by intuitions like this. Once we locate this reasoning\, we can probe its structure\, assess its quality\, and explore variations of it\, along with its relation to intuitions on the opposing “purist” side. In the end\, I argue that we can capture what the impurist gets right without accepting impurism. This is important because\, as I argue\, impurism faces serious problems.
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-matthew-mcgrath-washington-university-in-st-louis/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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