Title: Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events Abstract: In this talk, I will discusses different philosophical challenges in communicating and dealing with the risk of rare and severe events. As a case study, I use avalanche risk: a form of voluntary risk taking in which the individual is often partly responsible…
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Please join us on for the Second edition of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientist Simon Lee and philosopher Viviane Fairbank will give presentations on the topic of ‘Climate Modelling… |
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Title: Resisting the unexperienced Abstract: An experience is epistemically transformative when you can’t know what it’s like without having the experience. Though this characterisation doesn’t neatly fit transformative experiences, a surprising number of everyday experiences fit the description. The clearest parallel is with aesthetic experiences. The Acquaintance Principle (Budd, 2003) says that an agent can only appreciate an… |
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Title:Â Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03 |
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