So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science

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• Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida)
• Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:30-17:00
• Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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The COVID -19 pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis have fundamentally challenged the traditional ‘credit economy’ model of science, revealing an institutional architecture driven less by disinterested truth-seeking and more by bureaucratic survival. This talk outlines a Public Choice Philosophy of Science (PCPS) – a framework that models scientific institutions and their ‘scientist-bureaucrats’ as rational actors responding to incentives for political influence, resource protection, and moral signalling.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

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