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Date | Friday, March 26, 2021 |
Time | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (UTC-4:00) |
Title | Models, Values, and Precaution: How should models guide policy? |
Author
| Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida |
Abstract | Models have a played a prominent role in guiding Covid-19 mitigation policy, often being used to make confident and dire predictions. But models such as these often embed assumptions about values. They also can encode precautionary reasoning that emphasizes a particular balance of risks. How can we optimize the use of models to guide policy in a crisis? What has the last year taught us about expert testimony and “following the science”? |
Speaker Bio | Eric Winsberg is professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is especially interested in models and simulations in the sciences. He is author of *Science in the Age of Computer Simulation* and *Philosophy and Climate Science.* |