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SUMMARY:Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry - Liam Kofi Bright (London Sc
 hool of Economics)
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:Social epistemologists are increasingly coming to appreciate t
 he importance of planning out a schedule of inquiry. How we decide what wi
 ll be investigated\, by who and on what schedule\, are hugely influential 
 on what we are capable of coming to know or reliably conclude. Presently o
 ne prominent social technology we have for allocating resources to project
 s of inquiry is the peer reviewed grant competition. In this talk I will r
 eview a number of critiques of this social technology\, motivate an altern
 ative grounded in the historical practice of W.E.B. Du Bois\, and point to
  some relative advantages of the latter course. I end by calling for an in
 tegrated HPS project that might help us explore the social epistemic prope
 rties of Du Boisian scientific resource allocation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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