ENPOSS 23- European Network for Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
The social sciences have had to deal with serious crises, criticisms, and calamities in recent decades. Far too many research results do not replicate; social scientists fail to predict social events of massive reach; far too many many 'evidence-based' policies have failed to bring about the desirable changes taxpayers have been promised; and far too many disciplines within the social sciences have been charged with ideological bias, which comes, or so argue the critics, at the expense of scientific standards.
Adversarial collaboration (Kahneman 2011) is a relatively new research strategy that is hoped to help with a range of methodological problems the social sciences face and restore trust in the field. The basic idea is that (teams of) scientific opponents agree on the formulation of a contested hypothesis, a research design, a neutral data collector, and to publish results regardless of what they are . Proponents of adversarial collaboration predict that the practice will lead to numerous desirable outcomes, among which to increase accountability and minimise bias among scholars, lead to more moderate, nuanced, and therefore more likely true claims, promote tolerance of genuine academic freedom and weed out scholarship with an agenda (Clark and Tetlock 2022).
The goal of this paper is to take a philosophical look at adversarial collaboration, to evaluate the strong claims that have been made in its support, and, in particular, to assess potential roles for philosophers of (social) science in adversarial collaboration.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Vortragstyp:
Hauptvortrag / Eingeladener Vortrag auf einer Tagung