Book Launch: Identifying Future-Proof Science

All are welcome to attend the book launch and drinks reception for Peter Vickers’ forthcoming book 'Identifying Future-Proof Science' due to be published by Oxford University Press later this year. 

• First book to directly engage with the question of how to identify future-proof science
• Takes a transdisciplinary approach in its combination of historical, philosophical, and sociological methods
• Offers a companion to Alexander Bird's Knowing Science and The Tangle of Science by Nancy Cartwright et. al., both forthcoming with OUP
• Provides a thorough discussion of the reliability of the immediate scientific knowledge that emerged during the first stages of the Covid-19 pandemic

Please confirm attendance by contacting admin.chess@durham.ac.uk

Please note that there will be a CHESS Seminar before this event with Dr Joseph D. Martin (Durham University).