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Expertise in Crises: Covid-19 and Beyond
12 May 2023, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
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Workshop: Expertise in Crises: Covid-19 and Beyond
When and where
12 May 2023, 9.00am-6.00pm, LAK2.06, Lakatos Building, LSE Campus – and Zoom
About
This workshop examines the use of scientific expertise in responding to crisis situations like the covid-19 pandemic. It will feature talks from a range of disciplinary perspectives, focusing both on the recent pandemic and crises in general. Topics to be discussed include epistemic and democratic issues relating to the use of expertise in policymaking, such as the management of expert disagreement and minority expert positions.
Registration
In Person: Click here for the Sign-up sheet.
Zoom: Click here to register for Zoom.
Programme
| Time | Programme |
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:10 | Alfred Moore (University of York): Post-Covid Reflections on the Politics of Expert Advising |
| 10:10 | Break |
| 10:40 | Jonathan Birch (LSE Philosophy): Scientific meta-consensus and the communication of uncertainty |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:20 | Richard Bradley (LSE Philosophy): Confident advice, precautionary decisions |
| 11:55 | Break |
| 12:10 | Lucie White (Utrecht University): Policy-Making Under Uncertainty: Precautionary Reasoning, Pandemic Restrictions and Asymmetry of Control |
| 13:10 | Lunch |
| 14:25 | Stephen John (University of Cambridge): Weber’s Elephant: what to do when ethical commitments shape responses to uncertainty |
| 15:25 | Break |
| 15:40 | Joe Roussos (Institute for Futures Studies): Expert disagreement in advising and research |
| 16:15 | Break |
| 16:45 | Panel Discussion |
| 17:45 | End |