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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN ÉTHIQUE (CRÉ) www.lecre.umontreal.ca Adresse physique : 2910 Édouard-‐Montpetit, Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J7 Adresse postale : C.P. 6128, succursale « Centre-‐ville », Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Téléphone : (514) 343-‐6111 poste 2958
Workshop on the Ethics of Social Risk Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), Montréal, 18th-19th Sept 2015 The workshop will take place in: Room C-‐2059 Pavillon Lionel-‐Groulx 3150, rue Jean-‐Brillant, Montréal (between metro Université de Montréal and Côte-‐des-‐Neiges) A projector for presentations is available. Provisional programme Friday, September 18th 9h00 Opening remarks
9h15 Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), Progress report on the evaluation of social risks
10h40 John Welch (Saint Louis University, Madrid campus), Information poverty and social risk
11h35 Nicolas Gravel (Université Aix-‐Marseille), Robust normative appraisal of distributions of risk of cardiovascular disease
12h25 lunch
14h00 Geir Asheim (University of Oslo), Intergenerational risks, social context, and sustainability
14h55 Paolo Piacquadio (University of Oslo), Reference-dependent (generalized) utilitarianism: risk, its resolution over time, and discounting
15h45 coffee
16h00 Johanna Thoma (University of Toronto), Social risk aversion in the long run
16h55 Christian Traeger (University of California, Berkeley), Evaluating uncertainty and the case of climate change
19h00 dinner
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN ÉTHIQUE (CRÉ) www.lecre.umontreal.ca Adresse physique : 2910 Édouard-‐Montpetit, Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J7 Adresse postale : C.P. 6128, succursale « Centre-‐ville », Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Téléphone : (514) 343-‐6111 poste 2958
Saturday, September 19th 9h00 Luc Bovens (London School of Economics), The Distribution View: Concerns for
the Poorly off in Risky Prospects
10h30 Sylvie Loriaux (Laval), Moral demands in an uncertain world 11h25 Tom Rowe (London School of Economics), Severe uncertainty and fairness 12h15 lunch 14h00 Johann Frick (Princeton University), Contractualism and social risk: How to
count the numbers without aggregating 14h55 Juri Viehoff (ETH Zürich), Systemic financial risk, precaution, and ex ante
contractualism
15h45 coffee
16h00 Daniel Hogendoorn (Delft University of Technology) & Arthur Petersen (University College London), Governance implications of the unknowability of the future for dealing with deep uncertainty in climate-change risk: The case of the IPCC
16h55 Gerard Vong (Fordham University), Probabilistic personal well-being: Explaining the disvalue of counterfactual risks of harms
Presentations of keynote speakers (Bovens, Fleurbaey, and Traeger) have a time slot of 1h20; other presentations have 50mins. This includes discussion time. We encourage you to circulate your papers by September 1st. Organizers: Peter Dietsch, Philosophie, Université de Montréal Justin Leroux, Économie appliquée, HEC Montréal