Choice Group

For those of us interested in developing norms for effective scientific advising, the SAGE minutes (59 sets of which are now publicly available) are a valuable resource. Drawing on these minutes, I consider the wider lessons for norms of scientific advising that can be learned from the UK's initial response to coronavirus, highlighting five key issues: (i) the division of advisory labour, (ii) the grain of recommendations, (iii) the role of worst-case scenarios, (iv) switching cost asymmetries and (v) the difference between independence and neutrality.

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This event will take place online via Zoom. Details for joining will be shared here at least a week in advance. Abstract: TBA   Lara Buchak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Berkeley. Her primary research interests are in decision, game, and rational choice theory.

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This event will take place online via Zoom. Details for joining will be shared here at least a week in advance. Abstract: TBA Julia Staffel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She specialises in epistemology, with a focus on formal epistemology.