<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Title:
</span></b><span style="color:black">The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Aaron James, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Date</span></b><span style="color:black">: Friday, March 6, 2015 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Time</span></b><span style="color:black">: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Cost</span></b><span style="color:black">: FREE and open to the public<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Location</span></b><span style="color:black">: Philip G Hoffman Hall, Room 232 (PGH-232) Main Campus, University of Houston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Contact and Phone Number</span></b><span style="color:black">: Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D., 713-743-0101<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Link:
</span></b><a href="http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Aaron-James.php">http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Aaron-James.php</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); ">This talk 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Biography</span></b><span style="color:black">:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); ">Aaron James (Harvard PhD, Philosophy, 2001) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy Oxford
University Press, 2012, and was awarded the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, spending 2009-10 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. He was also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University in the fall of 2013.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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