[CCoE Notice] UH Ethics in Science Lecture Series: The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk

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Ethics in Science
Lecture Series
The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk

Aaron James, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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Friday, March 6, 2015
11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
University of Houston
232 Philip G. Hoffman Hall



Professor James suggests that "systemic risk" (e.g., of financial market collapse, or of ecological calamity) has a distinctive kind of moral significance. Two intuitive data points need to be explained. The first is that the systematic imposition of risk can be wrongful or unjust in and of itself, even if harm never ensues. The second is that, even so, there may be no one in particular to blame. Both ideas can be explained in terms of what James calls responsibilities of "Collective Due Care." Collective Due Care arguably precludes purely aggregative cost-benefit decision-making, and requires one kind of "precautionary" attitude in public choice.

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