Karim Bschir
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Item type:Publication, On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy AdviceIn this discussion note, we contrast two models of pluralistic policy advice that have recently been proposed: Stephen John’s (2025) representative model and our integrative model (Bschir and Lohse 2022, 2024). We believe that the contrast between representative and integrative pluralism is of high relevance for the broader philosophical discussion on scientific policy advice.Type:journal articleJournal:Philosophy of Science - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Feyerabend’s humanitarian pluralism and its relevance for science-based policy(2024)A strong commitment to pluralism on multiple levels (methodological, theoretical, ontological as well as political) is a defining feature of Paul Feyerabend’s philosophical corpus. However, for Feyerabend, pluralism is not just an epistemologically preferable account within the philosophy of science. He also believes that pluralism is the only account of science that is compatible with a humanitarian outlook. In the first part of this paper, I will reconstruct Feyerabend’s theoretical pluralism in the context of his criticism of Thomas Kuhn’s account. I will show that Feyerabend’s critical engagement with Kuhn’s model of scientific revolutions in the early 1960s was crucially important for the development of his own pluralistic account of science. In the second part, I will discuss and critically analyse the ethical-political stance that underlies Feyerabend’s pluralism. In the final part, I briefly summarize a series of papers that I have published together with Simon Lohse, in which we apply Feyerabend’s pluralism to current discussions about the role of evidence-based policy advice during the COVID-19 pandemic.Type:journal articleJournal:Philosophical InquiriesVolume:12Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Taking pluralism seriously: a new perspective on evidence-based policy(2023); Simon Lohse<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Scientific policy advice in the face of complex real-world problems requires a maximally pluralistic knowledge base. However, integrating different types of knowledge from a variety of sources raises a series of highly challenging epistemic as well as practical problems. We propose an integrated model of pluralistic policy advice emphasizing the appropriate constitution and structure of pluralistic expert panels. Furthermore, we suggest that normative assumptions underlying expert advice should be made explicit to policymakers. The goal should not be to avoid normative biases, but rather to create transparency with respect to the unavoidable value judgements that influence the epistemic preferences of experts and to provide policymakers with evidence-based scenarios that range over a variety of value preferences.</jats:p>Type:journal articleJournal:Science and Public PolicyScopus© Citations 15 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Pandemics, policy, and pluralism: A Feyerabend-inspired perspective on COVID-19(2022-10-26); Lohse, SimonType:journal articleJournal:SyntheseVolume:200Scopus© Citations 18 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Perspectivism in current epigenetics(2020)Type:journal articleJournal:European Journal for Philosophy of ScienceVolume:10Issue:3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy(2020) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Introduction: systematicity, the nature of science?(2019-03); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Failure in Science and Why It Is a Good Thing(2018)Type:journal articleJournal:Perspectives in Biology and MedicineVolume:61Issue:2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The manipulability of what? The history of G-protein coupled receptors(2017) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Risk , Uncertainty and Precaution in Science: The Case of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern Approach in Food Toxicology.Type:journal articleJournal:Science and Engineering EthicsVolume:23