Workshop - Evidence and Mechanisms in the Social Sciences

Date: 30-31 May 2023

Venue: Sala de Grados, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Valencia. 

Program

Tuesday, 30 May 2023. 

12.00 Opening Remarks and presentation of Evisoc

12.15 [Keynote 1] Robert Northcott - "Fragility and Mechanisms"

13:30 Lunch break

15.00 Valeriano Iranzo - "Do we get Evidence through computer simulations? Agent-Based models on focus"

15.45 Rosa Runhardt - "Limits to evidential pluralism: Multimethod large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies"

Wednesday, 31 May 2023. 

10.00 [Keynote 2] Anna Alexandrova - "Validity and Values: what justifies measurement choices when constructs are moralised" 

11:15 Coffee break

11.45 María Jiménez-Buedo and Saúl Pérez-González - "Analytical Sociology and the Catalogue of Mechanisms"

12.30 Héctor Cebolla Boado - TBA  [Cancelled]

13:30 Lunch break

15:00 Team meeting

Organizers

María Jiménez-Buedo (UNED)

Valeriano Iranzo (University of Valencia)

Saúl Pérez-González (University of Valencia)

This event is organised by the project “Evidence and Mechanisms in the Social Sciences” [PID2021-125936NB-I00] funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.