Conference and Workshop Support: Models and Prediction: A Research Workshop, University of California, San Diego; May 26-28, 2006

会议和研讨会支持：模型与预测：研究研讨会，加州大学圣地亚哥分校；

• 批准号: 0551355
• 负责人: Naomi Oreskes
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Workshop; Support; Models; Prediction; Conference; Workshop; Support; Models; Prediction

PROJECT SUMMARYThis proposal seeks funds to support a three-day Research Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, examining the role of models in science from a historical, philosophical, sociological and policy perspective. This interdisciplinary workshop will map the current state of the field, synthesize insights derived from different scientific and humanistic domains, and consider the implications for the use (and abuse)of models in public policy decision-making. Participants will include UCSD faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences; science studies graduate students; and 18-20 outside speakers. Outside speakers will include science studies scholars who are acknowledged experts on the topic, and scientists who are modelers and have an interest in the history, philosophy, or sociology of modeling. Funds are requested to cover travel costs of five outside speakers who will be coming from overseas. The international participants are leading scholars and an important component of the workshop. Funding for all other conference costs has beenraised from the UCSD Humanities Center, the UCSD Science Studies Program, and UCSD divisions of Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and ScrippsInstitution of Oceanography. The intellectual merit resides in the importance of understanding models as a ubiquitous tool of modern science, and a major input to policy decisions on such topics as global warming, ozone depletion, and arsenic in drinking water. Despite the attention paid to scientific modeling, there remains relatively little cross-pollination of ideas among scholars who work from the perspectives of individual disciplines either within science studies, or between science studies and the sciences. Specialist work based can be enhanced by a broader awareness of work done elsewhere, as well as by discussion with scientists who are modelers. This workshop will facilitate such awareness and discussion. In doing so, it will help scholars to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary practice of science, in which modeling figures prominently. The workshop is designed to have significant broader impact, as the organizers are convinced of the pertinence of science studies for the use of scientific knowledge in society. The workshop integrates research and education, complementing the pedagogical activities undertaken as part of an existing NSF Small Research and Training Grant, "Proof Persuasion and Policy" (PPP). Graduate students will be active participants, and organizing the workshop will be an important part of the professional development of the current postdoctoral fellow. The workshop will promote interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities and the sciences; several discussants will be UCSD scientists with modeling expertise. Contingent on the success of the workshop and the quality of the papers, the organizers hope to publish an edited book that brings together the key insights and results arrived at in the workshop. Ultimately, we hope that a better understanding of scientific modeling may facilitate wiser use of models in developing and evaluating public policies andhelp to obviate confusion and obfuscation among parties to public policy debates.

Project摘要这一提议寻求资金来支持加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校的为期三天的研究研讨会，从历史，哲学，社会学和政策的角度研究了模型在科学中的作用。这个跨学科研讨会将绘制该领域的当前状态，综合源自不同科学和人文主义领域的见解，并考虑对公共政策决策中模型使用（和滥用）的影响。参与者将在人文，社会科学和自然科学中包括UCSD教师；科学研究研究生；和18-20个外扬声器。外部演讲者将包括科学研究学者，这些学者是该主题的公认专家，而科学家则是建模者，并对建模的历史，哲学或社会学感兴趣。要求资金支付将从海外来的五位外部发言人的旅行费用。国际参与者是领先的学者，也是研讨会的重要组成部分。所有其他会议费用的资金都从UCSD人文科学中心，UCSD科学研究计划以及UCSD的物理科学，生物学科学和Scrippsinstitution的分区中得到了支持。知识分子的优点依赖于将模型作为现代科学的普遍工具的重要性，以及对诸如全球变暖，臭氧耗竭和饮用水中砷等主题的政策决策的主要意见。 尽管关注科学建模，但从科学研究中或科学研究和科学之间的单个学科角度工作的学者中，思想的交叉授粉仍然相对较少。通过对其他地方所做的工作以及与建模者的科学家的讨论，可以通过更广泛的认识来增强基于专业的工作。该研讨会将促进这种意识和讨论。通过这样做，这将有助于学者对当代科学实践有更深入，更全面的了解，在这种科学实践中，建模的人物显着。该研讨会旨在产生更大的影响，因为组织者相信科学研究在社会上使用科学知识的相关性。 该研讨会整合了研究和教育，并补充了现有NSF小型研究和培训补助金“证明说服力和政策”（PPP）的教学活动。研究生将是积极的参与者，组织研讨会将是当前博士后研究员专业发展的重要组成部分。 研讨会将促进人文和科学方面的跨学科合作；一些讨论的人将是具有建模专业知识的UCSD科学家。关于研讨会的成功和论文质量，组织者希望出版一本经过编辑的书，将关键的见解和结果汇集在一起​​。 最终，我们希望对科学建模有更好的理解可以促进更明智地使用模型来制定和评估公共政策，以消除公共政策辩论各方之间的混乱和混淆和混淆。