James,
This sounds ineresting, but some parts of the submission notice specify Nov. 1
as the submission deadline (which is too short for me), while other parts
indicate December 1 as the deadline. Can you tell me which deadline is the
right one (I hope December1 is).
Thanks, John
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From: James Justus
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: [SydPhil] CFP: Evidence, Science and Public Policy (Sydney 2009)
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CFP: Evidence, Science and Public Policy (Sydney 2009)
Sydney-Tilburg conference on
EVIDENCE, SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
26-28 March 2009
Conference website:
http://sydcfs.org.au/
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Mark Burgman (University of Melbourne), John Quiggin
(University of Queensland) and John Worrall (London School of Economics)
ORGANISERS: Mark Colyvan (Sydney), Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), James Justus
(Sydney) and Jan Sprenger (Tilburg)
The relationship between science and public policy is complex. Good public
policy on matters such as the environment, climate change, health, the economy,
and justice must be informed by good science. But this science needs to be
conducted in ways amenable to the needs of the policy makers and the results
communicated in ways accessible to both the policy makers and the public at
large. Public policy issues might even impinge on the science itself. For
example, acceptable levels of error might be thought to be determined by the
consequences of the decisions to be made using the scientific findings. This
raises many interesting philosophical questions about the relationship between
science, evidence and public policy. Should science remain independent of
policy decisions and concern itself only with evidence? Is this possible? What
is evidence-based medicine and does it live up to its advertising? What is
evidence-based public policy and what does it offer above standard policy
making? Our goal in this conference is to bring together philosophers of
science, political philosophers, policy makers, and other researchers
interested in the science-policy interface. We welcome papers on any of the
above questions as well as papers on broader issues concerning evidence,
especially in applied contexts (e.g. legal, medical, and environmental).
We invite submissions of extended abstracts of up to 1000 words by 1 December
2008. Decisions will be made by 15 January 2009.
James Justus
Philosophy Department
Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/new%20site/staff/justus.html
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