Virtual Hart Seminar: David Enoch - 'Statistical Resentment...'

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David Enoch: “Statistical Resentment, Or: What’s Wrong with Acting, Blaming, and Believing on the Basis of Statistics Alone”

The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy invites you to an optional pre-read online seminar to be delivered by David Enoch (Hebrew University).Abstract: Statistical evidence – say, that 95% of your co-workers badmouth each other – can never render resenting your colleague appropriate, in the way that other evidence (say, the testimony of a reliable friend) can. The problem of statistical resentment is to explain why. We put the problem of statistical resentment in several wider contexts: The context of the problem of statistical evidence in legal theory; the epistemological context – with problems like the lottery paradox for knowledge, epistemic impurism and doxastic wrongdoing; and the context of a wider set of examples of responses and attitudes that seem not to be appropriately groundable in statistical evidence. Regrettably, we do not come up with a fully general, fully adequate, fully unified account of all the phenomena discussed. But we give reasons to believe that no such account is forthcoming, and we sketch a somewhat messier account that may be the best that can be had here.The paper is available <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DmLY3bhk2f9rMuvP03z_MBs6gVFdxa1x/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.The Zoom meeting will begin at 16:10 on 17 June and you can access it at that time by clicking <a href="https://surrey-ac.zoom.us/j/97959261887" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.(If you have any problems registering through Eventbrite, please simply click the link above at the time of the event.)

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