Inquiry, Risk, and Impartiality: Lessons from Segregation Modeling, with Kareem Khalifa

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 p.m.

 

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.

 

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.

 

This speaker series was kindly funded by UPenn's SNF Paideia Program.