Workshops and invited talks

Université de Lyon, France May 28-30, 2018 Description: The two-and-half-day international workshop is the closing event of the DEMOCRASCI project, which deals with the epistemological foundations and principles for the democratisation of the governance of science...

Which future for technologies between transhumanism and the ecologisation of society ? (talk delivered in French) Plenty of uncertainties plague talk of the future of technology, as well as of society in general. I will attempt to sketch two possible...

Innovation against Precaution : A debate from another era at the time of responsible research and innovation (talk delivered in French) At present some important social, economic and political actors, either motivated by considerations of ease, either because of...

In this talk I will argue for the following two points : 1) that all valuation, that is the establishment of a grading of values, should diminish the credibility of the scientific expert in the eyes of the lay-person and 2) that different techniques for bringing...

3rd December 2015, 11:00 to 4th December 2015, 17:00, Senate Room, University College, Durham Organised by Julian Reiss (CHESS) and Stéphanie Ruphy (University of Grenoble) The workshop was jointly organised by the BA-funded project ‘The Value-Free Ideal in Economics’...