Trustworthiness of Science: Social Credibility and a Call for Social Responsibility

At the time of the lecture Joyce Havstad will be a Fellow at the University of Hannover's Centre for Advanced Studies project, Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information (SOCRATES). She is a philosopher of science and values, with a background in scientific practice. She has worked in a soil ecology lab on Bodega Marine Reserve, in a gene expression lab at the Salk Institute and as the philosopher-in-residence at the Field Museum of Natural History.  Her appointments at the University of Utah are in the Department of Philosophy, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Office of Research Integrity and Compliance.  Her interdisciplinarity, her hands-on practice-facing philosophy, her certification as a Multiparty Conflict Mediator and her work on science and values, as well as her day-to-day work at Utah dealing with research integrity makes her a paradigm of humanities engaging science and society – which is what CHESS is all about.