British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Enquiry, Evidence and Facts: An Interdisciplinary Conference
In association with the Leverhulme Trust/ESRC funded research programmes on 'The Nature of Evidence' at University College London and the London School of Economics
A two-day conference convened by Professor William Twining, FBA, Professor Mary Morgan, FBA, FKNAW, London School of Economics and Professor Philip Dawid, University College London
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
9.15 – 5.30, Thursday 13 December and Friday 14 December 2007
ABSTRACTS
- Dr Jon Adams: Science Facts vs. Folk Facts
- Professor Terence J. Anderson: Generalizations and Evidential Reasoning
- Professor Rachel A. Ankeny: The Role of the Case in the EBM Era: Evidence, Warrant, and Practice in Contemporary Medicine
- Dr Gianluca Baio, Dr Amanda B. Hepler, Dr Grant Fisher: Are Expert Opinions Telling Us Both Sides of the Story?
- Professor Nancy Cartwright: Evidence-based Policy: So, What's Evidence?
- Professor Andrew Chesher: Evidential Reasoning in Economics: Advances in Identification Analysis
- Dr Jason Davies: Foucault's Tourist
- Professor Philip Dawid: Evidence, Inference and Enquiry: Towards an Integrated Science of Evidence
- Dr Grant Fisher: Evidence, Inference and Action: Towards a New Philosophy of Evidence
- Professor John Fox: Formal Modes of Argument
- Dr Ben Goldacre: How the alternative therapy industry promotes the public misunderstanding of evidence
- Dr David Haycock: 'False Facts' and the Facts of Life (and Death)
- Dr Amanda Hepler, Dr David Lagnado, Dr Gianluca Biao: The Subtleties of Alibi Evidence
- Dr Peter Howlett: Travelling in the Social Science Community: Assessing the Impact of the Indian Green Revolution Across Time and Disciplines
- Dr David Lagnado: Causal models in Evidential Reasoning
- Dr Sabina Leonelli: Circulating Facts About Organisms: Biological Databases
- Professor Sir Neil MacCormick: On Narrative Coherence
- Professor Donald MacKenzie: Making Abstractions Facts
- Dr Erika Mattila: Life of a 'Fact': Understanding Infectious Disease Transmission
- Professor Martina Merz: Diversity in Fact Production: Confronting Natural and Social Sciences
- Professor Mary Morgan: How Well do Facts Travel?
- Professor Naomi Oreskes: You Can Argue with the Facts: A Political History of Climate Change
- Dr Edmund Ramsden: From Rodent Utopia to Urban Hell: Experiments in Crowding Pathology
- Dr Jill Russell, Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Dr Emma Byrne and Professor Janet McDonnell: A Rhetorical Analysis of Evidence-based Policymaking
- Professor David A. Schum: Some Evidence Issues in Intelligence Analysis
- Professor Stephen Sloman: Motivated Causal Reasoning: Choice as Evidence
- Professor Rick Steckel: Bones of Contention: Interpreting Facts from Physical Anthrolopology
- Professor Peter Tillers: Are There Universal Principles or Forms of Evidential Inference?
- Professor William Twining: Common Sense Generalizations
- Dr Simona Valeriani: Building on the page - Building on the site: Christopher Wren's Italian sources
- Dr Aashish Velkar: Design Standards and Travelling Facts: Lessons from the Standardization of British Wire Sizes (c1880)
- Dr Patrick Wallis Artisans and Experts: Evidence and Authority in Early Modern England
- Professor Alison Wylie: Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology
Professor Peter Lipton had agreed to make a presentation entitled: Alien Abduction: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Evaluation of Testimony. It was with deep regret that the conference convenors learned he had died just before the conference.