VMST 2019: 9TH ANNUAL VALUES IN MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2019
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, May 23rd Friday, May 24th Saturday, May 25th

Thursday, May 23rd

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09:00-09:45Coffee & Registration
10:00-11:30 Session 2: Fertility and Pregnancy
10:00
Regulating scientific research under deep uncertainty: the case of ontologically ambiguous entities (abstract)
10:20
The Long Road to Revising the Pregnancy Labels: Fetal-centrism and a Feminist Success Story at the FDA (abstract)
10:40
Numbers in Crisis: Gender and the Measurement of Fertility (abstract)
11:30-12:00Break
12:00-13:00 Session 3: Lightning Talks 1
12:00
Finding Yourself: Epistemic Injustice & Medical Feedback in Adolescence (abstract)
12:00
Communicating Risks and Harms in Clinical Guidelines: A Need for Values in Science (abstract)
12:00
Speed v Impact: values trade-offs in Life Cycle Analysis in the field of Solar Energy Technologies (abstract)
12:00
Ectogenesis, Abortion, and the Anti-Infanticide Intuition (abstract)
12:00
Patient Values, the Pursuit of Health, and the Ethics of Non-Hindrance (abstract)
12:00
Values in Psychological Assessment for Custody Determinations for Parents with Disabilities (abstract)
12:00
In Support of Moving Toward Investigating How to Embed Clinical Wisdom Within The Medical Practice (abstract)
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:00 Session 4: Psychology & Mental Health
14:00
Values and the Concept of Mental Disorder (abstract)
14:20
Positive psychology is value-laden—It’s time to embrace it (abstract)
15:00-15:15Break
15:15-16:45 Session 5: Science & the Public
15:15
Covert Exercitives in Popular Discussions about Science (abstract)
15:35
Technology, Policy, and the Open Science Ideal (abstract)
15:55
Science in Times of Crisis: Precaution and Politics in Flint (abstract)
16:45-17:00Break
Friday, May 24th

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09:00-09:30Coffee & Registration
09:30-11:00 Session 6: Artificial Intelligence and Emergent Technologies
09:30
Ethics, Action, and the Space of Technological Possibility (abstract)
09:50
Cyborg Maintenance: The Invisible Work of the Technological Bodymind (abstract)
10:10
Integrating the Second Person Standpoint into AI-supported Environments (abstract)
11:00-11:30Break
11:30-12:30 Session 7: Lightning Talks 2
11:30
The Demarcation Problem in philosophy of science: the scientific predicate, a socio-political status or an epistemic assessment? (abstract)
11:30
Why value-ladenness of the behavioral sciences should lead to rethinking the widespread views on their policy relevance. (abstract)
11:30
"Value-inertia" in science-based assessments of extremes (abstract)
11:30
Utilizing Science in Society: Toward a Stakeholder Model of Science in an Aggregative Democracy (abstract)
11:30
The Value Freedom of Value-Laden Science: Perspectives on Inductive Risk and the Social Value Management Ideal (abstract)
11:30
Recruiting Underrepresented Groups in Philosophy: A Longitudinal Study (abstract)
11:30
The Ethical Dr. Frankenstein (abstract)
11:30
A role for the history and philosophy of science in the promotion of scientific literacy (abstract)
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 8: Values in Science 1
13:30
Machine learning, theory choice, and non-epistemic values (abstract)
13:50
Values in Science: Ethical vs. Political Approaches (abstract)
14:10
The Heart of Scientific Inquiry: Affect in Pierre Duhem's 'Good Sense' (abstract)
15:00-15:30Break
15:30-16:30 Session 9: Medical Research and Practice
15:30
“Neutrality” as the Value-Free Ideal in Clinical Ethics Consults (abstract)
15:50
Pragmatic progress and the improvement of medical knowledge for global health (abstract)
Saturday, May 25th

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09:00-09:30Coffee & Registration
09:30-11:00 Session 10: Sex and Gender
09:30
Virtues of the Spectrum Theory of Sex (abstract)
09:50
Transfeminist pragmatism, values, and problem choice: Thinking through the possible futures of research on detransition (abstract)
10:10
Improving the Health of Transgender People by Affirming the Individual through Phronesis (abstract)
11:00-11:30Break
11:30-12:30 Session 11: Values in Science 2
11:30
Values, Bias and Replicability (abstract)
11:50
Considerations of inductive risk are always relevant, unless they aren't (abstract)
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 12: Research Ethics
13:30
Ethical Exploratory Research: Looking at informed consent in exploratory brain stimulation (abstract)
13:50
Philosophy in the Rainforest: Reflections on the Impact of Integrating Philosophy and Fieldwork (abstract)
14:30-14:45Break
14:45-16:15 Session 13: Computing Technology
14:45
Insights on the agency of computer scientists from an ethics course at the University of Washington (abstract)
15:05
Intellectual Humility in Software Engineering (abstract)
15:25
Eframing, Practice, and the Natural Law (abstract)
16:15-16:45Break
16:45-18:30 Session 14: Douglas, SPVFI 10th Anniversary Session

SRPoiSE Plenary Session: The 10th Anniversary of Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal by Heather Douglas

A discussion of the impacts of the book over the last 10 years and what the next 10 years holds for discussions of values in science, broadly construed.

16:45
Introduction (abstract)
16:50
Why does language matter to philosophy (debates about values and science)? (abstract)
17:15
The Road from Value-Freedom (abstract)
17:40
Beyond Foreseeability (abstract)
18:05
The Epistemic and the Political: Conceptualizing Public Engagement with Science (abstract)