Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

CONCEPTION & ORGANISATION : Marie Gaille, Research Director at SPHERE (University of Paris, UMR 7219, CNRS-University of Paris) & Marta Spranzi, Lecturer HDR at « Printemps » (University of Saclay, UMR 8085, CNRS-University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines).

Concerned Doctoral Schools
ED 623 « Savoirs scientifiques » pour l’Université de Paris et l’ED 578, « Sciences de l’homme et de la société » pour l’Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.

PRESENTATION

The seminar will consist of three Study Days. Each of these three days will include presentations of students’ work in progress followed by a collective discussion, presentations of works relevant to the field, either on a methodological level or on a theme of collective interest, points of bibliographic monitoring, a reflection by the organizing teachers and / or an external speaker, and information points on calls for publications, projects, symposia and academic life (open sciences, HAL, etc.).
The transition between the empirical level and the normative level will be the subject of particular attention.
One of the three days of seminar will be co-organized with colleagues from the University of Lyon 3 and ENS Lyon who work from the same ethical and epistemological perspective.

AIMS
— 1. Allow students to broaden their knowledge of empirical approaches in the humanities and social sciences and to develop a critical and reflexive attitude towards empirical research in humanities and social sciences with a normative dimension
- 2. Refine their theoretical knowledge in research in epistemology and ethics of health and medicine
- 3. To benefit from regular thesis monitoring within a research group in their area of specialization.
- 4. To be accompanied in the proposal of articles or communication in English

CONCERNED STUDENTS
Students must be engaged in thesis work, possibly M2 or post-doctorate. Their work must relate to ethical, epistemological or methodological questions relating to the field of health or medical practice in contemporary society and use in a privileged but not exclusive way an empirical approach to answer the normative and conceptual questions posed. Students must have a background in philosophy (ethics, epistemology, etc.). However, students with prior training in other humanities and social sciences or in medicine, and who would be engaged in a thesis project that falls within the identified field, may be authorized to follow the seminar after an interview with the organizers.