Seminars/Reading list
Readings will be available for copying at the Philosophica library, Metsätalo 15.8.2011.
NB: Seminar 0, Monday 19.9.11, 16-18 PR SL 16 (4th floor, ‘uusi puoli’)
Introduction to the general literature
How to prepare for seminars and working methods for the course.
I What are models?
Seminar 1, Tuesday 20.9.11, 16-18 PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Boumans, M. (1999). Built-in justification. In Models as Mediators. Perspectives on Natural and Social Sciences. M. Morgan and M. Morrison. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 66-96.
Seminar 2, Wednesday 21.9.11, PR Aud II (2nd floor ‘vanha puoli’)
Oreskes, N, Belitz K. (2001) Philosophical Issues in Model Assessment, In M.G. Anderson, P.D. Bates (eds) Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science, Wiley,London, pp. 23-41.
II What is evidence? Exploring the trend towards quantification
NO SEMINAR: CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS!
(Seminar 3, Thursday 22.9.11, 16-18 PR SL 16 (4th floor))
Seminar 4, Friday 23.9.11, 16-18 PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Espeland Nelson, W. & M. L. Stevens (2008). A Sociology of Quantification.European Journal of Sociology, XLIX, 3, 401-436.
III Computational techniques in policy use: infectious disease models and climate models
Seminar 5, Monday 26.9.11, 16-18 PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Mansnerus E, (2011) Using models to keep us healthy: Productive Journeys of Facts across Public Health Networks In M. Morgan and P. Howlett (eds.): How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge,Cambridge,MA:Cambridge University Press
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Session on How to prepare the outline for the essay.
Seminar 6, Tuesday 27.9.11, 16-18, PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Scoones,I.(2010) Fighting the Flu: Risk, Uncertainty and Surveillance. In: Dry S and Leach M (eds) Epidemics, Science, Governance and Social Justice. Earthscan,London, pp. 137-164
Seminar 7, Wednesday 28.9.11, 16-18, PR AUD II (2nd floor)
Dahan Dalmenico, A. (2007). Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological and Political Aspects. In A. Creager,E. Lunbeck, & M.N. Wise (Eds.), Science without Laws. Model systems, cases, exemplary narratives.Durham andLondon: Duke University Press.
IV Governance of risk by modelling
Seminar 8, Thursday 29.9.11, 16-18, PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Independent study to prepare the essay outline for Friday 30.9.
NB: Submit your essay outlines and writing plans by 20.00 to modelsevidencepolicy@gmail.com!
Seminar 9, Friday 30.9.11, 16-18, PR SL 16 (4th floor)
Class task to be announced later!
Questions and Answers
Feedback and discussion for the essay outlines: How to carry on writing?
Background readings (not required for the course)
Boumans M (2004) The Reliability of an Instrument. Social Epistemology 18(2-3): 215-246.
Ewald F, (1991) Insurance and Risk. In Burchell G, Gordon C, & Miller P, (eds) The Foucault Effect Studies in Governmentality with two lectures and an interview with Michel Foucault. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, pp. 197-210
Gramelsberger G, (2010) Conceiving processes in atmospheric models—General equations,subscale parameterizations,and‘superparameterizations’. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 41: 233-241
Hulme M, Pielke R Jr, Dessai S, (2009) Keeping prediction in perspective. Nature (reports climate change) vol 3: 126-127
MacKenzie D, (2005) Mathematizing risk: models, arbitrage and crises. In B. Hutter, & M. Power (Eds.), Organizational Encounters with Risk. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 167-189
Morgan M, (2001) “Models, stories and the economic world.” Journal of Economic Methodology 8(3): 361-384.
Morgan M, (2002) “Model Experiments and Models in Experiments.” in Magnani L. and N. Nersessian (eds.): Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values. Kluwer Academic Publishers/ Plenum Publishers: New York.
Oreskes, N. (2007). From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology. In A. Creager, E. Lunbeck, & M.N. Wise (Eds) Science without Laws. Model systems, cases, exemplary narratives. Duke University Press: London
Shackely S, & Wynne B, (1996) Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority. Science, Technology and Human Values 21(3): 275-302