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Scientific expertise, risk assessment, and majority voting

Boyer-Kassem, Thomas (2016) Scientific expertise, risk assessment, and majority voting. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Scientists are often asked to advise political institutions on pressing risk-related questions, like climate change or the authorization of medical drugs. Given that deliberation will often not eliminate all disagreements between scientists, how should their risk assessments be aggregated? I argue that this problem is distinct from two familiar and well-studied problems in the literature: judgment aggregation and probability aggregation. I introduce a novel decision-theoretic model where risk assessments are compared with acceptability thresholds. Majority voting is then defended by means of robustness considerations.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
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Boyer-Kassem, Thomast.c.e.boyer-kassem@uvt.nl0000-0002-7621-0253
Keywords: scientific expertise, risk, majority voting, robustness, decision theory
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
General Issues > Science and Society
Depositing User: Dr. Thomas Boyer-Kassem
Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2016 13:30
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2016 13:30
Item ID: 12506
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
General Issues > Science and Society
Date: 3 November 2016
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12506

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