Epistemic Foundations and Limitations of Statistics Workshop with Walter Radermacher

Epistemic Foundations and Limitations of Statistics Workshop with Walter Radermacher

The Open Science Initiative in Statistics (OSIS) at our department, in collaboration with the MCML, is organizing a focused, discussion-driven workshop titled “Epistemic Foundations and Limitations of Statistics and Science – Explaining the Replication Crisis?” on November 22, 2024, at LMU Munich.
This workshop aims to foster a thoughtful exchange among statisticians, philosophers of science, and other interested researchers, concentrating on Open Science principles and the replication crisis from an epistemic viewpoint on the foundations and boundaries of statistical methods. Through a series of invited talks and discussions, participants will explore the philosophical and practical challenges that underpin reproducibility and the broader trustworthiness of scientific research.

Invited Speakers and Talks The lineup features talks from leading experts in the field:

• Sabina Leonelli (TU Munich): “What reproducibility can’t solve”
• Uwe Saint-Mont (HS Nordhausen): “How Feynman Predicted the Replication Crisis”
• Walter Radermacher (Advisory Board on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute and LMU Munich): “Epistemology and Sociology of Quantification based on Convention Theory”
• Michael Schomaker (LMU Munich): “Replicability When Considering Unconditional Interpretations and Gradations of Evidence”
• Rudolf Seising (Deutsches Museum): “An Interwoven History of AI and Statistics”