MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

Mar 23, 2022
Models, Values, and Precaution: How Should Models Guide Policy?

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
About This Series

The seminar series of the Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program” runs once a month, usually on a Monday at 14:30 in the seminar room of the Villa (Harnackstraße 5). The talks deal primarily with the history, philosophy, and foundations of modern (post-WWII) physics or with wider epistemological questions related to the work of the group. There are no pre-circulated papers.

Full program of the seminar series, Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program”
2022-03-23T14:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2022-03-23 14:00:00 2022-03-23 16:00:00 Models, Values, and Precaution: How Should Models Guide Policy? 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”? Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Zoom/Online Meeting Platform Europe/Berlin public