Carole J. Lee (University of Washington, Seattle)
Within the scientific community, there is a common understanding that its reward system drives problematic behavior and that, in order to improve science, the scientific community must coordinate across institutions to change how credit is assigned to individual scientists. But, how do we go about identifying how to assign credit to any given behavior? This talk will explore the philosophical challenges associated with assigning credit — drawing practical examples from the current context of science's complex and dynamic culture — with an eye towards identifying how individuals and institutions can resolve ambiguities in the assignment of credit.
