Uehiro Mini-Workshop

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Uehiro Mini-Workshop

The Ethics of Behavioural Influence & Discrimination

The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics is running a mini-workshop on June 15 which may be of interest to anyone working on the ethics of behavioural influence (e.g., nudging), algorithms in the criminal justice system, or discrimination. Please get in touch if you would like to read the papers beforehand (recommended), attend in person (so that we have a sense of numbers for the catered lunch), or receive a Zoom link to join online. For more details contact: Binesh Hass (binesh.hass@philosophy.ox.ac.uk)

Location: Seminar Area, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Suite 8, Littlegate House, 16/ 17 St Ebbe’s St.

Mini-Workshop Agenda

9.45 am: Welcome tea / coffee

10 am – 11 am: Professor Tom Douglas & Dr Gabriel De Marco (Oxford), ‘On the relationship between nudge, efficacy, and resistibility’

11 am – NoonProfessor Lucia Zedner (Oxford), ‘Algorithmic Justice and the Ethics of Prediction’

Noon – 12.45 pm: Lunch

12.45 pm – 1.45 pmProfessor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus), ‘Why the concept of indirect discrimination is a useful legal, but not a useful moral concept’