Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism:
A Celebration of Matthew J. Brown’s Contributions to the CVMST
The 11th Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference (VMST-11)
at
The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST)
University of Texas at Dallas
May 23-25, 2023
Program
Tuesday May 23
9:15: Coffee & Registration
9:45: welcome from the Director
10:10-11:10: Contributed Papers: Feyerabend
Finney Premkumar (University of Birmingham): Paul Feyerabend’s Vision of a “Free Society” without the Tyranny of Science
Jonathan Tsou (University of Texas at Dallas): Feyerabend’s Pluralist Realism in the 1970s
11:10-11:20: Coffee Break
11:20-12:00: Keynote
Jamie Shaw (University of Hannover): Feyerabend’s Experiments in Living: The Limits of Pluralism
12:00:1:20: Lunch
1:20-2:20: Contributed Papers/ Pluralism in Biology
Robert Kok (University of Utah) Against Medicalizing Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Parasitological Perspective
Holly VandeWall (Boston College): Pluralism in Plant Pedagogy
2:20-2:25: Coffee Break
2:25-3:25: Contributed papers/ Responses to Uncertainty
Sarah Wieten (Durham University): (Covertly) Wishing for Causes
Adrian Erasmus (University of Alabama): P-hacking: Its Costs and When It Is Warranted
3:25-3:45: Coffee/ Snack Break
3:45-4:25: Keynote
Joyce Havstad (University of Utah): What is Pluralism?
4:25-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-5:10: Keynote
Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge): Arguments Among the Islanders of Moa
5:15pm: Opening Reception
Wednesday May 24
9:15: Coffee & Registration
9:40-11:10: Contributed papers/ AI
Britta Bolander (University of Utah): Problematizing Machine Learning’s Cognitive Metaphor: Implications and Alternatives
Dustin Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz): The Will to Submit: Surveillance Technologies and their Impact on Academia
Emily LaRosa (Michigan State University): Carebots, Trust, and Justifiable Deployment: A Call for Appropriate Agential Trust Grounding in HCAI Use
11:10-11:20: Coffee Break
11:20-12:00: Keynote
Carla Fehr (University of Waterloo): Who the Computer Sees: Race, Gender, and AI
12:00-1:20: Lunch
1:20-2:20: Contributed Papers/ Enhancement, Racial Justice, and Trust in Science
Ian Peebles (Princeton University): Race, Wellbeing, and (Enhancements of) Cognition
Gabriele Contessa (Carleton University): The Practical Dimensions of Public Trust in Science
2:20-2:25: Coffee Break
2:25-3:25: Contributed Papers/ Science and Communities
Victoria Min-Yi Wang (University of Toronto): Dismantling the Deficit Model of Science Communication Using Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thinking Collectives
Paul Howatt (Indiana University): Science in the Great Community: The Place of Science in Dewey’s Democratic Theory
3:25-3:45: Coffee/ Snack Break
3:45-4:25: Keynote:
Trevor Pearce (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Alain Locke’s Critique of Pragmatist Value Theory
4:25-4:30pm: Coffee Break
4:30-5:10: Keynote
Don Howard (University of Notre Dame): Quine, Dewey, and the Pragmatist Tradition
Thursday May 25
9:15: Coffee & Registration
9:40-11:10: Panel/ Moral Imagination in Practice: Our Genes, Our Minds, and Our Past
Hannah Allen (University of Utah): Oops, I Did It Again: How Values Can Stop Bad Science
Bennett Knox (University of Utah): Psychiatry, Neurodiversity, and Moral Imagination
T.J. Perkins (University of Utah): Cycles of Inquiry, Cultural Readiness, and Moral Imagination
11:10-11:20: Coffee Break
11:20: 12:00: Keynote
Daniel Hicks (University of California, Merced): Anarchism, Cynicism, and Public Critique of Science
12:00-1:20: Lunch
1:20-1:50: Contributed paper
Gregory Lusk (Durham University) and Kevin Elliott (Michigan State University): A Framework for Incorporating Value Judgements within Scientific Assessment
1:50-1:55: Coffee Break
1:55-2:35: Keynote
Kareem Khalifa (University of California, Los Angeles): Inquiry and Epistemic Priority
2:35-2:40: Coffee Break
2:40-3:20: Keynote
Heather Douglas (Michigan State University): Democratic Accountability for Big Science
3:20-3:40: Coffee/ Snack Break
3:40-5:10: Response by Matt Brown/ Discussion
Matthew Brown (Southern Illinois University)
Banquet Dinner