About the project
A viable democracy must make well-informed decisions, and science is often regarded as the most authoritative form of knowledge. This raises important questions about the division of labor between citizens and democratic institutions, on the one hand, and science and experts, on the other. What is this relation and what should it be?
Science and Democracy studies the whole spectrum of such questions, from the descriptive "is" to the normative "should be". These questions are best studied together: prescriptions without an adequate descriptive basis may become naive and unrealistic; empirical analysis without normative reflection will easily lose its critical edge.
Purpose of the project
Science and Democracy brings together scholars from philosophy, law and social science, and investigates:
- the causal relationship between science and democracy
- best practices for the use of science in democratic governance
- the role of values in science advice
- democratization of science
- scientific disagreement and uncertainty
- science in democracy during times of crisis.
Related groups
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Associates: Anders Strand (University of Oslo), Ingrid Lossius Falkum (University of Oslo), Katharine Naomi Whitfield Browne (University of Oslo), Karen Crowther-Telbis (University of Oslo), Sebastian Watzl (University of Oslo), Olav Gjelsvik (University of Oslo), Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg (University of Oslo), Joey Pollock (University of Oslo), Reidar Maliks (University of Oslo), Nils Roll-Hansen (University of Oslo), Nick Hughes (University of Oslo), Pål Fjeldvig Antonsen (University of Oslo), Julie Lauvsland (University of Oslo), Helena Seibicke (University of Oslo), Sebastian Svenberg (University of Oslo), Vemund Haugevik Jernsletten (University of Oslo), Jack Wright (University of Gothenburg), Lucas Dijker (University College Dublin), Philippe Stamenkovics (Uppsala University), Johan Christensen (Leiden University), Torbjørn Gundersen (OsloMet), Eva Krick (University of Mainz), Silje Aambø Langvatn (University of Bergen),
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Academic Advisory Board: Naomi Oreskes (Harvard), Susan Owens (Cambridge), Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm), Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge)
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Practitioners Forum
Cooperation
- Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), UiO
- Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, UiO
- Departement of Political Science, UiO
- Norwegian Center for Human Rights, UiO
- University College Dublin (UCD)
- University of Iceland
Duration
01.01.2023-31.12.2025
Funding
The Science and Democracy research group has received funding from UiO:Democracy to conduct a three year research project.