Join us for the next Baker Center Energy and Environmental Forum, which will
take place on Thursday, January 31, at 3.30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium in the
Baker Center.
Doug MacLean, from the Department of Philosophy at University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill will give a talk, titled: “Ethics and the Distribution of Risk”
Abstract: Techniques designed to aid decision makers in developing and
evaluating policy recommendations aim primarily to aggregate and balance risks,
costs, and benefits. It is well known that these techniques are better suited
to measuring and comparing quantities of good and bad outcomes than they
are at evaluating the morally relevant distributive consequences of alternative
decisions. Some of these consequences raise familiar considerations of justice.
In this talk, I will describe some distributive issues, and I will focus especially
on issues that pose unique challenges to the familiar methods of measuring and
aggregating individual preferences for different risk scenarios.
Doug MacLean is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor MacLean’s current research focuses on
practical ethics and issues in moral and political theory that are particularly
relevant to practical concerns. Most of his recent writing examines how values
do and ought to influence decisions, both personal decisions and government
policies. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University.
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ATTN ALL UT STUDENTS -- attend the "Baker Center Connection" at 5:30 - 7
pm in the Toyota. We will be featuring student organizations that focus on
government, politics, public service and current issues, such as, Roosevelt
Institute, Issues Committee, TISL, Mock Trial, Net Impact and many
others...plus pizza while it lasts. Learn about these organizations and join!
You can make a difference too!
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