CfP (with travel grants): Workshop “Group decision-making in scientific expert committees”
Workshop “Group decision-making in scientific
expert committees”
TiLPS, Tilburg University (NL), 12-13 April
2017
Scientists
are regularly called upon to serve as experts advisors for various
institutions, be it on
the authorization of a new drug, the effects of climate change, or a
monetary policy. Typically, expert advisers are constituted in panels,
who are to utter their advice collectively. This raises a variety of
questions about the decision-making process: How
should the group best take advantage of the individual strengths and
expertise? How to wager individual opinions and how to ideally deal with
peer disagreement? One may want to devise special deliberation
procedures to avoid groupthink, and to install voting
rules tailored to the situation at hand.
This
workshop aims at gathering researchers who tackle these normative
questions, from a variety of perspectives.
We aim to bring together approaches from fields such as philosophy of
science, social epistemology, political philosophy, political science,
judgment aggregation, social choice theory, or agent-based modeling that
provide inside on these problems. We are particularly
looking for papers who are concerned with the specificity of both group
decision-making and scientific expertise (compared to, say, an
individual scientist giving advice, or a group of friends choosing a
restaurant). Submissions may cover abstract work as
well as case studies, and may involve formal tools.
Topics may include, but are NOT limited to:
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Judgment aggregation and voting rules
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Deliberation procedures
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Information dynamics
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Expertise and expert judgment
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Collective risk assessment
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Epistemic vs non-epistemic values
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Precautionary decision-making
Invited speakers:
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Roger Cooke (Risk Analysis and Mathematics, Delft & Washington)
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Franz Dietrich (Economics and Philosophy, Paris)
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Rafaela Hillerbrand (Philosophy, Karlsruhe)
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Rida Laraki (Computer Science and Economics, Paris)
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Behnam Taebi (Philosophy, Delft)
Abstract submission:
Please
submit an extended abstract of maximum 1000 words suitable for blind
review, together with a short abstract of maximum 100
words, before 24 February, 2017 at
Notifications of acceptance are expected on
March 3, 2017.
Organizers:
Thomas Boyer-Kassem (Tilburg University, NL)
Dominik Klein (Bayreuth University and Bamberg University, Germany)
Dates and Deadlines
24 February: Submission Deadline
3 March: Notification of Acceptance
12-13 April: Conference
Travel grants (new!)
We
offer a few travel and accommodation grants of up to 200 Euro each for
people with limited funding at their home institution,
be they graduate students, postdocs or faculty members. Only accepted
speakers are eligible for travel grants. To apply for a grant, please
send a short letter to tilps@uvt.nl by February 24th the latest, explaining your financial academic situation. Presentation
of proofs of payment will be required for the reimbursement.
For more information: