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
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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