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## 28 April: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
0900-1030 Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other
**0915-1030** Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other
1100-1215 Rune Nydal: What makes a social theory right?
*Reading:*
Taylor, Charles. 1983. Social Theory as Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. (available [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Taylor.pdf))
1215-1315 Lunch
1315-1500 Hannah Winther: Research ethics
**1030-1200** Hannah Winther: Research ethics
This session deals with three levels of research ethics:
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Browse through the NESH guidelines, available in both Norwegian: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/retningslinjer/hum-sam/forskningsetiske-retningslinjer-for-samfunnsvitenskap-og-humaniora/ or English: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/en/guidelines/social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/guidelines-for-research-ethics-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/
**1200-1300** Lunch (Sandwiches are provided)
## 29. April: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
**1300-1500** Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth
0900-1200: Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth
**This session introduces the classical issues of the philosophy of science, framed through the lens of the nature and possibility of objectivity in research.**
*This session introduces the classical issues of the philosophy of science, framed through the lens of the nature and possibility of objectivity in research.*
*Essential readings:*
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- Jonathan Knowles, Theory of science: A Short Introduction: Ch. 4: Further Developments in Philosophy of Science: Lakatos, Feyerabend, Laudan, The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.
- M. Foucault 'The Discourse on Language' Appendix to The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York, Pantheon Books 1972, https://commons.princeton.edu/shakespeares-language/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2017/09/Foucault-The-Discourse-on-Language.pdf (and [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Discourse%20on%20Language_Foucault.pdf))
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1500: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing
## 29. April: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
**0915-1000**: Thomas Berker: Introduction to day 2
**1000-1200**: Rune Nydal: What makes a social theory right?
*Reading:*
Taylor, Charles. 1983. Social Theory as Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. (available [here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Taylor.pdf))
**1100-1200**: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing
This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on our understanding of science: The body and literacy.
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- Molander, B. (2015). Chapter 9: Two sides of the same coin. Professional knowledge and the culture of knowledge. In: The practice of knowing and knowing in practices (pp. 237-262). Peter Lang Edition. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Molander9.pdf))
- Young, I.M. (1980) ‘Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality’, Human Studies, 3(2), pp. 137–156. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Young1980.pdf))
**1200-1300**: Lunch
**1300-1500**: Finke cont.d
## 12 May: Science in context I (day 3)
0900-1200 Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work
**0915-1200** Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work
*Essential reading:*
- Latour, Bruno (1983) Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world. In: Latour, Bruno, Knorr-Cetina Karin, Mulkay MJ (eds.) Science observed. Perspectives on the social study of science. Sage: London: 141-170. Online: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/12-GIVE-ME-A-LAB-GB.pdf
1200-1300 Lunch
**1200-1300** Lunch
1300-1500 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality.
*Essential reading:*
- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334
## 13 May: Science in context II (day4)
0900-1200 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
*Essential reading:*
- William Clark. 2008. Academic charisma and the origins of the research university. University of Chicago Press, p. 183-238 (chapter 6: The doctor of philosophy). ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/William%20Clark%20-%20Academic%20Charisma%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Research%20University%20%282006%29.pdf))
*Additional readings:*
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. 1992. The image of objectivity. In: Representations 40, p. 81-128 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Daston%20and%20Galison.pdf))
- Steven Shapin. 2010. Never pure. Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. The Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 1-15. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Shapin%20never%20pure.pdf))
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice
**1300-1500** Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice
*Essential readings:*
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*Additional reading:*
- Valkenburg, G. (2021). Engineering as a socio-political practice. In D. P. Michelfelder & N. Doorn (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Routledge. [While strictly about engineering and not scientific research, much of this chapter resonates and pertains to science.] ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Valkenburg%20-%20Engineering%20as%20SocPol%20Practice%20NOT%20FOR%20DISTRIBUTION.pdf))
## 13 May: Science in context II (day4)
**0900-1200** Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
*Essential reading:*
- William Clark. 2008. Academic charisma and the origins of the research university. University of Chicago Press, p. 183-238 (chapter 6: The doctor of philosophy). ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/William%20Clark%20-%20Academic%20Charisma%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Research%20University%20%282006%29.pdf))
*Additional readings:*
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. 1992. The image of objectivity. In: Representations 40, p. 81-128 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Daston%20and%20Galison.pdf))
- Steven Shapin. 2010. Never pure. Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. The Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 1-15. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Shapin%20never%20pure.pdf))
**1200-1300** Lunch
1300-1500 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality.
*Essential reading:*
- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334
## 26 May: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
0900-1100 Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science
**0915-1100** Thomas Berker: Introduction to days 5+6
In this session we will work on the concept of objectivity based in feminist critique of universality in science and discuss the relevance and importance of acknowledging researcher positionalities.
**1000-1200** Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science
In this session we will work on the concept of objectivity based in feminist critique of universality in science and discuss the relevance and importance of acknowledging researcher positionalities.
*Essential readings:*
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- Haraway, Donna 1988. ”Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” Feminist Studies, 14(3): 575-599 (24 s) ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Haraway-SituatedKnowledgesScience-1988.pdf))
- Harding, Sandra, 2001 “Feminist Standpoint Epistemology” in Lederman, M. & Bartsch, i The Gender and Science Reader, London: Routledge: 145-165 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Harding%202001.pdf))
1100-1200 Thomas Berker: Introduction to the "ledger of grievances"
**1200-1300** Lunch
1200-1300 Lunch
**1300-1500** Astrid Rasch: Decolonising academia
1300-1500 Astrid Rasch: Decolonising academia
In this session, we will explore the historical entanglement of science and colonialism and consider the enduring legacies of this entanglement. We will discuss whether and how these considerations affect our own research practice.
*Readings*
In this session, we will explore the historical entanglement of science and colonialism and consider the enduring legacies of this entanglement. We will discuss whether and how these considerations affect our own research practice.
*Essential readings:*
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## 27 May: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
0900-1100 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
**0915-1100** Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
*Essential readings:*
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- Dankertsen, Astrid (2022) ' Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv' ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Dankertsen%20under%20publisering%20-%20Avkolonisering%20av%20akademia%20fra%20et%20samisk%20perspektiv.pdf))
**1100-1200** Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability
1100-1200 Thomas Berker: From the ledger of grievances to a constructive critique of science
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability
*Essential readings:*
*Essential reading:*
- Pfotenhauer, Sebastian M., Joakim Juhl, and Erik Aarden. “Challenging the ‘Deficit Model’ of Innovation: Framing Policy Issues under the Innovation Imperative.” Research Policy, New Frontiers in Science, Technology and Innovation Research from SPRU’s 50th Anniversary Conference, 48, no. 4 (May 1, 2019): 895–904. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Pfotenhauer%20et%20al.%20-%202019%20-%20Challenging%20the%20%E2%80%9Cdeficit%20model%E2%80%9D%20of%20innovation%20Fra.pdf))
*Additional reading:*
- Berker, Thomas. “Negotiating research norms between academic and industrial research. The case of a research centre on zero emission buildings in Norway”, to be published in Nordic Architectural Research. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Berker_Negotiating_research_norms.pdf))
**1200-1300** Lunch
**1300-1500** Thomas Berker: cont.d
## 6 June: Conference