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Choice Group Seminar by Henrik Kugelberg (LSE): ‘Responsibility for algorithmic injustice’
Abstract: Algorithmic systems often produce unjust outputs. However, there is widespread disagreement over how this injustice should be understood, conceptualised, and measured. There is also disagreement over what kind of responsibility is appropriate for addressing the wrongs. This paper examines two prominent accounts for analysing algorithmic injustices: the local distributive model and the structural injustice framework. The former focuses on developing…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Daniel Guillery (LSE): ‘Transport, movement, and equality: Private property and the justifiability of road systems’
Abstract: Roads (understood broadly as the public strips of land between parcels of private property that allow for the circulation of people and goods) are central to our ability to move from place to place. They are also highly dangerous and unequal places: the risks associated with travel through these spaces are substantial and usually very unequally distributed (as are the…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Mike Otsuka (Rutgers University): ‘Equal chances versus equal outcomes: when are lotteries fair and justified?’
Abstract: According to one potent challenge to the value and fairness of distribution by lot, the lottery chance of receiving a good is lacking in value or otherwise insignificant or irrelevant in comparison with actually receiving the good. To meet this challenge, I show in Section I that the far greater significance of receiving all of an undivided good needn’t undermine…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Darren Bradley (University of Leeds): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Darren Bradley is a Professor of Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of Leeds. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 Please note that these events are…
Find out more »Choice Group Seminar by Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge): TBC
Abstract coming soon... Anna Alexandrova is a Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. This event will take place in person on LSE’s campus. However, those unable to attend in person will have the option of taking part online. To join online just follow these instructions: Download Zoom Zoom link for this for this meeting: https://lse.zoom.us/j/6613924533 Please note that these events are…
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