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</style><div contenteditable="false"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="626" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col"><img alt="University of Houston" height="63" src="http://uh.edu/ecomm/images/header_uh.jpg" width="626"><h1 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="caps big-head">Ethics in Science</span><br><span>Lecture Series</span></h1><div class="clear"></div><h2 align="center"><strong><span class="red">The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk</span></strong></h2><p align="center">Aaron James, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine</p><img alt="Image" class="border alignleft" height="181" src="http://uh.edu/ecomm/images/james_fire.png" width="142"><img alt="Image" class="border alignright" height="182" src="http://uh.edu/ecomm/images/james_profile.png" width="142"><p> </p><p>Friday, March 6, 2015<br>
11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.<br>
University of Houston<br>
232 Philip G. Hoffman Hall</p><p align="center"> </p><div class="clear" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><p><br>
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.<br></p><p><img alt="National Science Foundation" class="alignleft" height="75" src="http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120816140029/logopedia/images/thumb/2/21/National_Science_Foundation_1999.gif/200px-National_Science_Foundation_1999.gif" width="75"></p><p><img alt="Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of Houston" class="alignright" height="68" src="http://uh.edu/ecomm/images/logo_times.png" width="113"></p></div><div class="footer">For more information on this lecture series, please visit <a href="http://uhhelpdesk.custhelp.com/rd?1=AvNA~wr1Dv8S~xb~Gv9Y~yIKFsEq6E77RPPSGj7~Pv8b&2=8999">
www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience</a></div></th></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D.<br>
Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor<br>
Computational Physiology Lab<br>
University of Houston<br><a href="mailto:ipavlidis@uh.edu">ipavlidis@uh.edu</a><br>
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