Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS)

About CHESS
- Aims
- People
- Location
Papers on Topical Matters by CHESS Directors
- The limitations of randomised controlled trials
  
  Cartwright, N & Deaton, A (2016). The limitations of randomised controlled trials
- Replicability, Reproducibility, and Robustness: Comments on Harry Collins
  
  Cartwright, N (1991). Replicability, Reproducibility, and Robustness: Comments on Harry Collins. History of Political Economy 23(1): 143-155
- The future of climate modeling
  
  Katzav, J. & Parker, W.S. (2015). The future of climate modeling. Climatic Change 132(4): 475-487.
- False Precision, Surprise and Improved Uncertainty Assessment
  
  Parker, W.S. & Risbey, J.S. (2015). False Precision, Surprise and Improved Uncertainty Assessment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 373(2055): 20140453
Recent Publications
- Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research
  
  Munro, E., Cartwright, N., Hardie, J. and Montuschi, E. (2017). Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research. Durham: Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS). Online now and available in paper soon. If you would like to request a paper copy, please contact admin.k4u@durham.ac.uk
- Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning
  
  Reiss, J. & Hsiang-Ke, C. (2017). Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning, Springer International Publishing.
- Rethinking Order - After the Laws of Nature
  
  Cartwright, N. and Ward, K. (2016). Rethinking Order - After the Laws of Nature. Bloomsbury.

Welcome to the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS)

At CHESS the humanities engage the sciences and society to promote knowledge for use. What kinds of academic knowledge — 'science' in the German sense — can best inform policy and practice, what methods will produce this knowledge and how should this knowledge be put to use? Special areas of focus are climate science, economic modelling, evidence-based social and economic policy, public health, biomedical science (especially genetics and stem-cell research) and general issues about the role of values in science.

News

Prof Nancy Cartwright is the recipient of the Carl Gustav Hempel Award for 2018

We are delighted to announce that CHESS co-Director Prof Nancy Cartwright is the recipient of the Carl Gustav Hempel Award for 2018. Presented at the 50th Anniversary of the First Biennial Meeting of the PSA in Seattle, Washington on Saturday 3rd November 2018, the award recognises lifetime scholarly achievement in the philosophy of science and aims to acknowledge the example of scholarly excellence and collegiality set by Professor Hempel (1905-1997).

Full details can be found here.

(6 Nov 2018)

Nancy Cartwright receives Distinguished Alumni Award

We are delighted to share the news that CHESS co-Director Prof Nancy Cartwright has received the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh earlier this year. Full information here

(1 Aug 2018)