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New Science - New Risks

Friday-Saturday, 30-31 March 2012
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required.
To register, please contact
rubus@pitt.edu.  
 

     Friday Afternoon     

 1:00

Paul Slovic, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon
Compassion collapse: A modification of Prospect Theory's value function

 1:45

Lara Buchak, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
Risk and tradeoffs

 2:30

Otávio Bueno and Robin Neiman, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami
Two types of uncertainty in clinical trials

 3:15

Coffee

 3:45

Roger Stanev, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
The assessment of efficacy and safety data by data and safety monitoring boards

 4:30

Simone Duca, Department of Philosophy, Ruhr University of Bochum
State-minimax regret: A new strategy for cautious introspective wishful thinkers

 5:15

Melissa Finucane, East-West Center, Honolulu
Changing Risk Paradigms

 

     Saturday Morning     

 8:30

Breakfast

 9:00

Paul Weirich, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia
Two types of risk

 9:45

Jeffrey Helzner, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Are reports concerning the death of Homo economicus greatly exaggerated?

10:30

Coffee

11:00

Brian Hill, École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris
Confidence in beliefs and decision making

11:45

Sofia Kaliarnta and Sabine Roeser, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology
Moral emotions and risk politics: An emotional deliberation approach to risk

12:30

Lunch

 

     Saturday Afternoon      

 2:00

Baruch Fischhoff, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University                               
Disclosing uncertainty

 2:45

Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker and Spencer Hey, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
Uncertainty, resilience and robustness in adaptive ecological       management

 3:15

Coffee

 3:45

Eric Winsberg, Philosophy Department, University of South Florida
Risk and uncertainty in the use of global climate models

 4:30

Teddy Seidenfeld, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
About some limitations of pairwise comparisons

Program Committee

Nils-Eric Sahlin (Chair), Lund University
Melissa Finucane, East-West Center, Honolulu
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh
Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Weirich, University of Missouri-Columbia

Sponsors

The Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

 
 
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