KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:
1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
- The presentation language is English.
- If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.
Event Details
The aim of this workshop is to map, discuss and evaluate different perspectives on the role of values in species classification at the interface with conservation policy and practice.
It is widely accepted that the science of conservation biology is entwined with normative postulates and value-laden concepts that stem from its mission- or crisis-oriented character. Likewise, the notion of biodiversity is often viewed as a normative concept that defies a purely scientific definition. Arguably, local aims and values play a pivotal role in deciding which set of biotic entities is considered valuable and merit protection. Doing justice to local norms and values has implications for how we define our conservation units, operationalize key concepts and categories, and shape biodiversity data infrastructures to meet the needs of conservation policy and practice. These challenges in turn raise questions of an applied philosophical nature about epistemic risks and tradeoffs that need to be navigated in bridging theory and practice. This workshop will address these questions at the boundary of theory and practice in a workshop that brings philosophers of science into conversation with ecologists, taxonomists, and other biodiversity scientists.
