{"id":32426,"date":"2016-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.observa.it\/competing-conceptions-of-science-in-the-laquila-major-risks-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:40:10","slug":"competing-conceptions-of-science-in-the-laquila-major-risks-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.observa.it\/en\/competing-conceptions-of-science-in-the-laquila-major-risks-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Competing conceptions of science in the L&#8217;Aquila \u201cMajor risks\u201d trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>Friday 9th December, 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>Competing conceptions of science in the L&#8217;Aquila \u201cMajor risks\u201d trial,\u00a0<\/strong>with<strong style=\"font-size: 12.0012px;\">Federico Brandmayr<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0012px;\">, University of Cambridge<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">In the last twenty years, science and technology studies have increasingly turned their attention to the methods and practices by which individuals and groups attribute certain characters to science to define its nature and distinguish it from other social spheres, such as politics, administration and the media. The theoretical aim of these studies is to explain why different groups select certain characters and ignore others, thus constructing conceptions of science that are often in conflict with each other. The talk will discuss some conjectures drawing from a study of the L&#8217;Aquila \u201cMajor risks\u201d trial and of the public debate that accompanied it. During the controversy, science was depicted sometimes as an influential and authoritative institution, at other times as a stock of knowledge unable to influence the behavior of laypeople; certain actors emphasized the practical and short-term benefits of science, while others emphasized its theoretical and speculative dimension. These conceptions had different implications on the decisions taken by the judicial authority, and thus constituted rhetorical tools that could be used strategically by the actors involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 9th December, 5pm Competing conceptions of science in the L&#8217;Aquila \u201cMajor risks\u201d trial,\u00a0withFederico Brandmayr, University of Cambridge In the last twenty years, science and technology studies have increasingly turned their attention to the methods and practices by which individuals and groups attribute certain characters to science to define its nature and distinguish it from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-475","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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