[spsp-members] Talk: Aleta Quinn @ Philosophy of Contemporary and Future Science Seminar Series

[André Curtis-Trudel]

On Thursday Feb. 22 / Friday Feb. 23 Aleta Quinn (Idaho) will present at
the PCFS Seminar Series. The talk is free and open to all. Details below!

Title: Objectivity and Citizen Science

Speaker: Aleta Quinn (Idaho)

Date and time: Thursday February 22 @ 8:00PM EST / Friday February 23 @
9:00AM HKT

Zoom link: https://lingnan.zoom.us/j/8973947961

Abstract: Citizen science (or community science, participatory science)
refers to participation of the general public in science as researchers.
Natural scientists broadly celebrate the potential of community science to
generate data at previously undreamed of scale (and at little cost).
However, natural scientists have worried about the quality of research
conducted by participants who lack scientific training, and question the
objectivity of contributors who may be driven by value-laden goals. In this
talk I link these worries to philosophical models of objectivity and the
appropriate relationship between science and social values. I argue that
for a thoroughly social model, conceptualizing citizen science as
collaboration across knowledge communities.
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