InSIS is pleased to host a panel discussion on The Trouble with Open Science
This event is part of the Capitalism & Science Astor Visiting Lectureship jointly hosted with the Oxford Centre for Global History and Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Participants will include Professor Philip Mirowski, Notre Dame; Professor Sabine Leonelli, University of Exeter and will be Chaired by Dr Javier Lezaun, InSIS, University of Oxford
Please note this event is now fully booked. Please contact global@history.ox.ac.uk to join the waiting list
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of, among others, The Knowledge we have Lost in Information (2017), More Heat than Light (1989), Machine Dreams (2001), ScienceMart (2011), and Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013). He is a recipient of the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, and was named Distinguished Scholar by the History of Economics Society. His recent research on the problems of open science has appeared in Social Studies of Science. Outside of the economics profession, he is best known for his work on the history and political philosophy of neoliberalism, and his methodological watchword that intellectual history is the story of thought collectives, not heroic individuals.
Sabina Leonelli is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. She serves as Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she leads the Data Studies research strand. She is also theme lead for the "Data Governance, Algorithms and Values" strand of the Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. She is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, together with Professor Giovanni Boniolo, and Associate Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review. She is the author of Data-centric Biology: A Philosophical Study, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016.
