Dear all, This is a reminder that today’s Politics of Economics seminar will be at 1715, Cathrine Holst (Oslo) will join us to talk about Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise and How to Address them, Frederico Brandmayr (Cambridge) will offer comments. The session will take place in SG1, Alison Richard building, Sidgwick site.
There is a paper for this session that was circulated to the mailing list last week. If you are not on the mailing list or need another copy please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. See you there! Jack Wright, Raffaele Danna, Jostein Hauge, and Alice Pearson > On 15 Jan 2019, at 09:12, Jack Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all > > The next session of The Politics of Economics > <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-politics-of-economics> will be on > Thursday Jan 24th at 17.15 pm (note this is a Thursday not our normal Tuesday > slot). We will be joined by Cathrine Holst (Oslo) who will talk to us on > Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise and How > to Address them (see abstract at the end of this email), Frederico Brandmayr > (Cambridge) will offer comments. The session will take place in SG1, Alison > Richard building, Sidgwick site. > > There will be a paper for this session pre-circulated to our mailing list > <https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-politics-of-economics>. If you > are not on the mailing list please send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> for a copy. > > As for the rest of the coming term, we are hosting the following sessions: > > - Tuesday Feb 5th, 12:00 - 14:00: Economics and/or Wellbeing, Will Davies > (Goldsmiths) Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge). Seminar Room SG1 NB Different time > > - Tuesday Feb 19th, 17:15 - 18:45: Measurement of the Sustainable Development > Goals, Seminar Room SG1, Mary Morgan (LSE) > > - Tuesday Mar 5th, 17:15 - 18:45: Private Equity and the Balance of Twinkie > the Kid, Seminar Room SG1, Daniel Souleles (Copenhagen Business School) > > You can subscribe to our mailing list here > <https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-politics-of-economics>, and > find us on twitter @poleconCRASSH <https://twitter.com/poleconCRASSH>. > > Best wishes, > > Jack Wright, Raffaele Danna, Jostein Hauge, and Alice Pearson > > > > Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise and How > to Address them > Cathrine Holst (Oslo) > > This paper contributes to an ongoing exchange in political theory on the > normative legitimacy of expert bodies. It focuses on epistemic worries about > the expertization of politics, and uses the Nordic system of advisory > commissions as an empirical case. Epistemic concerns are often underplayed by > those who defend an increasing role of experts in policy-making, while those > who have epistemic worries often tend overstate them and debunk expertise. We > present ten epistemic worries, of which some are of an epistemological > nature, while others are related to failures and biases. These worries no > doubt point to real problems which in some way have to be handled through the > design of expert bodies and institutions of science advice. We introduce > three groups of mechanisms that are likely to remedy the problems of > expertise and discuss what they imply for the design of a system of public > advisory commissions > > > _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
