OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The workshop will explore several themes that have long concerned Jerry Ravetz: the future of science, of post-normal science, and of policy-related mathematics.
How will the essential fiduciary status of science be preserved, when it is absorbed into STEMM, and threatened internally by the ‘irreproducibility crisis’ and externally by the populist rejection of elitist expertise?
As Post-Normal Science becomes a movement of ‘informed critical resistance’, how will it distinguish between real science done by good citizens and pseudo-science done by bad populists?
Policy-related mathematics is infected by fallacious statistical inferences, patently unfalsifiable simulation models, spuriously quantified indicators of quality, and sorcerer’s-apprentice algorithms. How can our scientific culture be weaned from its teddy-bear numbers?
Jerry will post brief statements on each theme on the workshop website, together with links to background literature. Members of the workshop are invited to contribute their comments, either before or at the event.
