Event
Mar 23, 2022
Models, Values, and Precaution: How Should Models Guide Policy?
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
- Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
- Eric Winsberg
Models have a played a prominent role in guiding Covid-19 mitigation policy, often being used to make confident and dire predictions. But models such as these often embed assumptions about values. They also can encode precautionary reasoning that emphasizes a particular balance of risks. How can we optimize the use of models to guide policy in a crisis? What has the last year taught us about expert testimony and “following the science”?
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Zoom/Online Meeting Platform