[PhilPhys] Call for Participants in a Research Group on Science, Civic Legitimacy, and Local Knowledge

[The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics]

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and
the Israel Association for History and Philosophy of Science are pleased to
announce a new research group in the field of Science, Technology, and
Society (STS) on scientific practices, their legitimacy among various
publics, and the making of local knowledge.

In recent decades, public discussion of scientific and technological domains
has undergone a deep democratization process. Experts' authority to
adjudicate controversial questions has eroded, while non-experts' legitimacy
of participating in scientific debates and decision-making processes has
grown. Following these trends, research on sites of production of knowledge
and technology has started examining the mutual relations between local
non-expert knowledge and credited formal knowledge, as well as scientific
consensus formation processes. We invite scholars whose research deals with
issues such as: 

.         Contemporary scientific authority, and the formation of new bases
of  legitimacy;

.         Local knowledge as a political concept;

.         Lay activism and lay participation in science and technology;

.         The integration of local and scientific knowledge;

.         Consensus formation mechanisms and dissent; 

.         Scientific controversies, outsiders and rebels.

The group will meet once a month at Tel Aviv University. Leading scholars
from Israel and abroad will be invited to take part in the meetings. A final
workshop is planned, in which group members will present their papers. We
aim at publishing the group members' research papers in a special issue of a
leading relevant journal.

We call for scholars from relevant disciplines to apply to the group. The
relevant disciplines include history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology,
law, science and technology studies, gender studies, and any other field
that studies knowledge generation processes and their outcomes. We
especially encourage young scholars to join the group, including doctoral
students in their ABD stage. Visiting scholars in Israel are also welcome.
Please send your application by email to safracen at post.tau.ac.il, and
include a short C.V. and a one-page description of your research project
that is relevant to the group.

The group will be administrated by Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, Dr. Anat
Leibler, and Dr. Boaz Miller.  

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