{"id":7806,"date":"2021-08-30T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-lisa-herzog-university-of-groningen\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T19:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:23:12","slug":"ceppa-talk-lisa-herzog-university-of-groningen","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-lisa-herzog-university-of-groningen\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk \u2013 Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Title: <\/b>Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization<\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The arrival of \u201cbig data\u201d promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it possible to draw a finer line between individual choices and circumstances that operate in the background? In a culture in which individual responsibility continues to be celebrated, this raises questions about new opportunities for institutional design with a stronger focus on individual responsibility. But what is it that can be drawn from big data? In this paper I argue that we should not expect a \u201cgod\u2019s eye\u2019s view\u201d on choice and circumstances from big data. \u201cResponsibility\u201d is a social construct that depends on the logic of different social situations, as well as our epistemic access to certain counterfactuals (e.g. whether an agent \u201ccould have acted differently\u201d). It is this epistemic dimension that changes with the arrival of big data. But while it might help overcome some epistemic barriers, it might also create new problems, e.g. because of polluted data. This is not just a theoretical problem; it is directly connected to questions about the regulation of the insurance industry, for which \u201cbig data\u201d has been described as a \u201cgame changer.\u201d I argue that this development forces us to directly confront questions about mutualist versus solidaristic forms of insurance, and more generally speaking about how much weight to ascribe to individual responsibility, given all we know about unequal background circumstances.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization \u00a0 Abstract: The arrival of \u201cbig data\u201d promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-7806","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7806\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}