Welcoming the new SOCRATES Fellows

From left to right: Ilvie Prince, Faik Kurtulmuş, Anna Leuschner, Rolf Lidskog, T.Y. Branch, Mathias Frisch, Margherita Harris, Emily Parke, George Barimah, Torsten Wilholt, and Roderik Rekker.

The second year at SOCRATES is well underway as we welcome the new group of fellows who arrived in Hannover this October.

Anna Leuschner will finalise a co-authored book on the intimidation of scientists and also works on a paper on new strategies that are used to undermine climate policies and that are challenging agnotology in novel ways. Furthermore, she is preparing a research project proposal on the exploitation of epistemic injustice in agnotological strategies as well as an edited volume on the philosophy of climate change research that is intended to be useful for teaching purposes.

Rolf Lidskog is interested in the epistemic and normative issue of what kind of expertise is needed to guide the work for transformative change. During his stay, he is writing a paper on the production of expertise for transformative change.

Emily Parke is focussing on several interconnected projects concerned with the relationships amongst different knowledge systems in the context of marine management and ocean science; examining norms and values in conservation practices; and creating space for constructive dialogue across different knowledge systems.

Faik Kurtulmuş will use his time at SOCRATES to finalise a co-authored book on distributive epistemic justice. Additionally, he is working on completing a paper that examines the challenges faced by scientific advisory bodies in representative democracies.