Program
Thursday, 27.6.2024
12:00-12:15 Hubert Knoblauch, Séverine Marguin, Silke Steets
Welcome and Introduction
12:15-13:00 Hubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin)
Introducing the Empirical Theory of Science
Empirical Theory of Science and Epistemologies
13:00-13:45 Peter Fischer (TU Dresden)
Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Lessons from the History of the Philosophy of Social Science
13:45-14:30 Jörg Niewöhner (TU München)
Epistemic Agonism. Developing a science after progress
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:45 Fabian Anicker (HH Universität Düsseldorf)
Bottom-up epistemology: Overcoming scientific fragmentation from within
15:45-16:30 Silke Steets (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Maps as Epistemic and Communicative Devices
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
Coproduction, Collaboration and Power Relations
17:00-17:45 Gabriel Faimau (University of Botswana)
Towards Decolonial Reflexivity and Co-Production of Scientific Knowledge
17:45-18:30 Cornelia Schendzielorz, Martin Reinhart (HU Berlin)
Research Collaborations as a Prism for Power-Knowledge Relations
19:00 Dinner
Friday, 28.6.2024
Belief and Science
9:00-09:45 Nona Schulte-Römer, Ignacio Farías, and Brett Mommersteg (HU Berlin)
Do Electromagnetic Waves Kill? The Dilemma of Evidence-Making in Post-Normal Science
09:45-10:30 Claire Wagner (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
The good, the bad and the bizarre: Environmental psychology’s role in guiding beliefs about climate change in a post-truth society
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Science and the Professions
11:00-11:45 Séverine Marguin (TU Berlin)
Multiperspectival research: Embracing heterogeneity through design-synthetic thinking
11:45-12:30 Jacques du Toit (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
The ‘relevance’ of social scientific research for the applied built environment professions: Epistemological and methodological questions and implications for social scientific research?
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:15 Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
When an Anthropologist Meets Hydrologists: A Reflection on the Sociology of Knowledge of Mekong Hydrology
14:15-15:00 Sabine Ammon (TU Berlin)
The Normativity of Research in the Engineering and Design Sciences
15:00-15:30 Nina Baur (TU Berlin): Wrap Up/ Conclusion