- What types of collaborative work should be distinguished, and why? What types of epistemic groups should be distinguished, and why?
- What are (or should be) propositional attitudes in (epistemic, scientific) groups, and how are epistemic decisions taken?
- What kinds of epistemic commitments are required in collaboration and group activity?
- To what extent does collaborative research and the activity of epistemic groups require collective/common/distributed knowledge?
- How does opinion dynamics works in scientific and non-scientific communities?
- Why do scientists collaborate and in which circumstances should they?
- Are the scientific practices of groups different from those of individual scientists?
- How do scientific groups interact, if they do?
- Do groups work similarly in various fields of science? Do theoretical and experimental groups work in the same way?
- To what extent is the epistemic activity of scientific groups different from the epistemic activity of other groups?
A large part of scientific research is now done in a collaborative way or within groups, from small local collaborations to international teams (like the CERN or the genome project). More generally, many epistemic activities need to be analyzed in the context of the group or community in which they take place. The conference is devoted to a philosophical analysis of this type of collaborative research and group epistemic life in general. It is open to various approaches, in particular philosophical and epistemological ones. Case-studies as well as formal studies are welcomed, insofar as they serve a philosophical thesis. You can also see below the suggested list of research questions.
Invited speakers
- Denis Bonnay (University Paris Ouest, IRePh & IHPST)
- Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University) and Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)
- Christian List (London School of Economics, UK)
- Erik J. Olsson (Lund University, Sweden)
- Jan Sprenger (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- K. Brad Wray (State University of New York, Oswego, NY, USA)
Contributed speakers:
- Anouk Barberousse and Marion Vorms (University of Lille 1 and University of Paris 1, France)
- Thomas Boyer and Cyrille Imbert (University Lille 1 and Archives Henri Poincaré, France)
- Rogier de Langhe (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Jeroen de Ridder (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Meghan Dupree (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Paul Égré (ÉNS, France)
- Mads Goddiksen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Genco Guralp (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Koray Karaca (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
- Nicolas Lechopier (University of Lyon 1, France)
- Conor Mayo-Wilson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Andrés Páez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
- Eddie Soulier and Elie Abi-Lahoud (University of Technology of Troyes, France and University College Cork, UK)
- Alain Trognon and Martine Batt (University of Lorraine, France)
- Anna Zielinska (University Paris Descartes, France)
Program Committee
- Anouk Barberousse (University of Lille 1, France)
- Mikael Cozic (University of Paris 12, France)
- Paul Égré (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
- Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
Organizers
- Thomas Boyer (University Lille 1, MSH Lorraine and Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)
- Cyrille Imbert (CNRS, Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)
Financial support for the conference is provided by the MSH Lorraine and the Archives Poincaré.