Analysis of values applied to risk modelling

• Grant number: 17/17081-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: April 15, 2018
• End date: June 15, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: Renato Rodrigues Kinouchi
• Grantee: Renato Rodrigues Kinouchi
• Host Investigator: Roman Peter Frigg
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of London, England

Abstract

In this project I defend that both risk and uncertainty exhibit a necessary entanglement between facts and values. Next, I will examine risk and uncertainty in terms of the formal properties of values. I will apply such analysis to the general idea of models as fictions, what implicates in the recognition that models of risk and uncertainty are not pure descriptions but rather evaluative descriptions with prescriptive character. Therefore, such models should indeed be value-laden fictions instead of value-free ones. Finally I propose a minimalist model of risk and uncertainty that fulfils the conceptual demands discussed above. It takes the form of a probabilistic trolley problem where the action of pulling the switch does not necessarily imply an undesirable outcome but only engenders the probability of the outcome. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

KINOUCHI, RENATO RODRIGUES. Philosophical issues related to risks and values. FILOSOFIA UNISINOS, v. 19, n. 3, p. 235-240, SEP-DEC 2018. (17/17081-4)