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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:Ethics\, risk and public works: models of optimal 
 risk reduction - Luc Bovens (LSE)
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UID:TALK22039AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/22039
DESCRIPTION:A public works programme requires that a number of
  more and less hazardous tasks are being performed
  by a number of different people over a period of 
 time. Now we wish to minimise the risk to the work
 ers involved in the programme. But what does this 
 mean? Even if we constrain ourselves to the risk o
 f death\, there are multiple interpretations of th
 e ideal of risk minimisation. Do we wish to minimi
 ze the number of expected deaths amongst workers? 
 Do we wish to reduce the risk that is imposed on t
 he most vulnerable workers? Do we wish to minimise
  the chance that even one worker dies? Do we wish 
 to minimise the chance that more than an acceptabl
 e threshold of deaths will occur? These all consti
 tute different ideals of risk minimisation. When w
 e invest in risk minimisation\, we need to take in
 to account certain technological constraints. Some
  investments may be highly effective in that they 
 make substantial reductions to the risk involved i
 n certain tasks\, whereas other investment decisio
 ns may be less effective in doing so. We construct
  models to determine how we should allocate invest
 ments to reduce the spread of risk\, given a parti
 cular technology and given particular ideals of ri
 sk minimisation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science
 \, Department of
CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
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