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# Table of Contents
**Table of Contents**
- [About the course](#about-the-course)
- [About the course](#about-the-course)
- [Formalities](#formalities)
- [Formalities](#formalities)
- [Lecturers ](#lecturers)
- [Lecturers ](#lecturers)
- [Credit points ](#credit-points)
- [Rooms (all in Dragvoll)](#rooms-all-in-dragvoll)
- [Required readings ](#required-readings)
- [Credit points](#credit-points)
- [Required readings ](#required-readings)
- [Course program](#course-program)
- [Course program](#course-program)
- [20 Sept.: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)](#20-sept-philosophy-and-research-ethics-i--day-1)
- [07. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)](#07-february-philosophy-and-research-ethics-i--day-1)
- [21 Sept.: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)](#21-sept-philosophy-and-research-ethics-ii-day-2)
- [08. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)](#08-february-philosophy-and-research-ethics-ii-day-2)
- [04 Oct.: Theories about science in context I (day 3)](#04-oct-theories-about-science-in-context-i-day-3)
- [20 March: Science in context I (day 3)](#20-march-science-in-context-i-day-3)
- [05 Oct.: Theories about science in context II (day4)](#05-oct-theories-about-science-in-context-ii-day4)
- [21 March: Science in context II (day4)](#21-march-science-in-context-ii-day4)
- [15 Nov.: Critical perspectives I (day 5)](#15-nov-critical-perspectives-i--day-5)
- [16. April: Critical perspectives I (day 5)](#16-april-critical-perspectives-i--day-5)
- [16 Nov.: Critical perspectives II (day 6)](#16-nov-critical-perspectives-ii--day-6)
- [17 April: Critical perspectives II (day 6)](#17-april-critical-perspectives-ii--day-6)
- [24 Nov.: Conference](#24-nov-conference)
- [22. May: Conference](#22-may-conference)
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## Formalities
## Formalities
The course consists of lectures, group work, and plenary discussions. To ensure sufficient engagement with the course’s content, to enable peer-learning and to encourage networking across disciplines physical attendance is mandatory and no digital alternatives for participation are provided. Participants can apply for shorter leaves of absence that should altogether not be longer than one day.
The course consists of lectures, group work, and plenary discussions. To ensure sufficient engagement with the course’s content, to enable peer-learning and to encourage networking across disciplines physical attendance is mandatory and no digital alternatives for participation are provided. Participants can apply for shorter leaves of absence that should altogether not be longer than one day.
### Lecturers
### Lecturers
Professor Thomas Berker (responsible for the course: thomas.berker@ntnu.no), Associate Professor Terje Finstad, Professor Jonathan Knowles, Associate Professor Sofia Moratti, Researcher Mattias Solli, Associate Professor Elisabeth Stubberud, Professor emeritus Knut H. Sørensen, Professor May Thorseth, and Research Professor Govert Valkenburg.
Professor Thomas Berker (responsible for the course: thomas.berker@ntnu.no), Professor Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke, Associate Professor Terje Finstad, Professor Jonathan Knowles, Associate Professor Sofia Moratti, Associate Professor Astrid Resch, Associate Professor Elisabeth Stubberud, Professor emeritus Knut H. Sørensen, Professor May Thorseth, and Research Professor Govert Valkenburg.
### Rooms
### Rooms (all in Dragvoll)
20.09.23: Dragvoll 8563 (biblioteket)
07.02.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
21.09.23: Dragvoll 8563
08.02.24: D5
04.10.23: Dragvoll Bygg 7 - 10 8563
20.03.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
05.10.23 9-12: Dragvoll Bygg 7 - 10 Sandkassa
21.03.24: D5
05.10.23 12-14: D112, 14-16: D5
16.04.24: D5
15.11.23: Dragvoll Bygg 7 - 10 8563
17.04.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
16.11.23: Dragvoll Bygg 7 - 10 8563
22.05.24: D150
24.11.23: Dragvoll Bygg 1 - 6 D6
### Credit points
### Credit points
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## Course program
## Course program
### 20 Sept.: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
### 07. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
0915 Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information
0900 Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information
0945 Getting to know each other
1000 Getting to know each other, presentations and group work
1050 Break
1200-1300 Lunch
The following lectures on day 1 and 2 will take up philosophical questions about method and truth in relation to natural science, social science, and the humanities, rounding off with a discussion of general research ethics.
The following lectures on day 1 and 2 will take up philosophical questions about method and truth in relation to natural science, social science, and the humanities, rounding off with a discussion of general research ethics.
1100-1545 (Lunch 1200-1300): Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth
1300-1500: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The Role of the Body and Literacy in Research
This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on our understanding of science: The body and literacy.
- What role does the body play in the production of scientific knowledge?
- How does the customary association between literacy and academic knowledge influence how we theorize about science?
- What if things were different – what can we learn from knowledge systems that incorporate the knowing body in more articulate ways than we usually do in the Western academic tradition, without any involvement of literacy?
*Essential readings:*
- Molander, B. (2015). Chapter 2: Tacit Knowledge and Silenced Knowledge. The Body, Culture, Action—and Language. In The practice of knowing and knowing in practices (pp. 35-70). 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/Practice%20of%20knowing_Ch.%202.pdf))
- Ong, W. (2013). Chapter 1: Transformation of the Word and Alienation. In Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (pp 17-49). Cornell University Press. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Interfaces%20of%20the%20Word%20_%20Ch%201.pdf))
*Additional reading:*
- Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). The primacy of perception and its philosophical consequences. In The primacy of perception (pp. 12-27). Northwestern University Press. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Primacy%20of%20perception_MP.pdf))
### 08. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
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.
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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.
- 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))
- 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))
### 21 Sept.: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
0915-1200: Mattias Solli: The Role of the Body and Literacy in Research
This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on our understanding of science: The body and literacy.
- What role does the body play in the production of scientific knowledge?
- How does the customary association between literacy and academic knowledge influence how we theorize about science?
- What if things were different – what can we learn from knowledge systems that incorporate the knowing body in more articulate ways than we usually do in the Western academic tradition, without any involvement of literacy?
*Essential readings:*
- Molander, B. (2015). Chapter 2: Tacit Knowledge and Silenced Knowledge. The Body, Culture, Action—and Language. In The practice of knowing and knowing in practices (pp. 35-70). 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/Practice%20of%20knowing_Ch.%202.pdf))
- Ong, W. (2013). Chapter 1: Transformation of the Word and Alienation. In Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (pp 17-49). Cornell University Press. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Interfaces%20of%20the%20Word%20_%20Ch%201.pdf))
*Additional reading:*
- Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). The primacy of perception and its philosophical consequences. In The primacy of perception (pp. 12-27). Northwestern University Press. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Primacy%20of%20perception_MP.pdf))
1200-1300: Lunch
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1545: May Thorseth: Research ethics
1300-1500: May Thorseth: Research ethics
This session deals with three levels of research ethics:
This session deals with three levels of research ethics:
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1545 End of day
1545 End of day
### 04 Oct.: Science in context I (day 3)
### 20 March: Science in context I (day 3)
0900-1100 Thomas Berker: Introduction: History, institutions, practices (and introduction to our conference)
1115-1200 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
0915 Thomas Berker: Introduction: History, institutions, practices
1200-1300 Lunch
1000 Break
1300-1500 Sørensen cont.
1015 Berker cont.
### 21 March: Science in context II (day4)
1100 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
0900 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
*Essential reading:*
*Essential reading:*
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- 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))
- 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))
- 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 Lunch
1200-1300 Lunch
1315 Finstad cont.
1300-1500 Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice
1400 Govert Valkenburg: Science as practice
*Essential readings:*
*Essential readings:*
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*Additional reading:*
*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))
- 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))
1445 Break
1500 Valkenburg, cont.
1545 End of day
### 05 Oct.: Theories about science in context II (day4)
0915 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
1000 Break
1015 Sørensen, cont.
1100 Break
1115 Sørensen, cont.
1200 Lunch
1300 Thomas Berker: Summary day 4 & introduction to groupwork: We are organising a conference!!!
1330 Groupwork 1
1415 Groupwork presentation 1
1445 Groupwork 2
1515 Presentation groupwork 2 & vote on conference topic
1545 End of day
### 15 Nov.: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
### 16. April: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
0915 Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science
0900-1100 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.
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 reading:*
*Essential readings:*
- Rolin, K. "Situated knowledge and objectivity." In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, pp. 216-224. Routledge, 2020.
- Ashton, N. A., & McKenna, R. (2020). Situating feminist epistemology. Episteme, 17(1), 28-47.
- Olmos-Vega, Francisco M., Renée E. Stalmeijer, Lara Varpio, and Renate Kahlke. "A practical guide to reflexivity in qualitative research: AMEE Guide No. 149." Medical teacher 45, no. 3 (2023): 241-251.
*Additional reading:*
- Collins, Patricia Hill 1986. Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of black feminist thought i Social Problems 33(6): 14-32 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Collins-LearningOutsiderWithin-1986.pdf))
- Collins, Patricia Hill 1986. Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of black feminist thought i Social Problems 33(6): 14-32 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Collins-LearningOutsiderWithin-1986.pdf))
- 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-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Haraway-SituatedKnowledgesScience-1988.pdf))
- 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-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/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-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Harding%202001.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-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Harding%202001.pdf))
*Additional readings:*
1100-1200 and 1200-1300 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
- Alcoff, Linda. “The Problem of Speaking for Others.” Cultural Critique, no. 20 (1991): 5–32. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Alcoff_1991_The%20problem%20of%20speaking%20for%20others.pdf))
- Longino, Helen E. 1993. Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Problems of Knowledge (Review essay discussing Smith, D., Stanley, L., Hekman, S. and Harding, S.), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1993, vol. 19, no. 1: 201-2012 ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Longino-FeministStandpointTheory-1993.pdf))
1130 Lunch
1230 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
*Essential readings:*
*Essential readings:*
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- Dankertsen, Astrid (2022) ' Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv' ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Dankertsen%20under%20publisering%20-%20Avkolonisering%20av%20akademia%20fra%20et%20samisk%20perspektiv.pdf))
- Dankertsen, Astrid (2022) ' Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv' ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Dankertsen%20under%20publisering%20-%20Avkolonisering%20av%20akademia%20fra%20et%20samisk%20perspektiv.pdf))
1500 We create a “ledger of grievances” together
1300-1500 Astrid Resch
1545 End
### 17 April: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
### 16 Nov.: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
0915 Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: engagement, interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability
0915-1500 Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: engagement, interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability
*Essential readings:*
*Essential readings:*
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- Collins, H.M. and Robert Evans. 2002. The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science 32 (2): 235–96. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Collins_Evans_2002_The%20Third%20Wave%20of%20Science%20Studies.pdf))
- Collins, H.M. and Robert Evans. 2002. The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science 32 (2): 235–96. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Readings/Collins_Evans_2002_The%20Third%20Wave%20of%20Science%20Studies.pdf))
- Latour, B. (2018) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Polity Press.
- Latour, B. (2018) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Polity Press.
1000 Break
1015 Thomas Berker cont.
1100 Break
1115 Thomas Berker cont.
1200 Lunch
1300 Thomas Berker: Introduction and group work on the course assignment
1545 End of day
### 24 Nov.: Conference
### 22. May: Conference
The participants of the course present papers on how their PhD work relates to the topics of the course. The conference is public and will be organised collectively.
The participants of the course present papers on how their PhD work relates to the topics of the course. The conference is public and will be organised collectively.