Department of Philosophy
Monday, November 6, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPE), Room 200
Please join the Philosophy Department on Monday, November 6th for the final talk in our Science in Democracy series with Kareem Khalifa.
The event will start at 5:00pm
Kareem Khalifa is a professor of philosophy at UCLA who works on the role of values in social science research on segregation, among other topics.
Title: Inquiry, Risk, and Impartiality: Lessons from Segregation Modeling
(with Jared Millson, Rhodes College)
Abstract:
According to the argument from inductive risk, scientists' evidential thresholds should rise or fall according to the costs of error. This is often thought to contravene "impartiality," the idea that moral, social, and political values play no legitimate role in the internal stages of science. We argue that this argument only undermines an imprecise conception of impartiality. When impartiality is regimented, the argument from inductive risk faces new challenges. We illustrate these points with examples from segregation research.