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SUMMARY:Presentation:CCN Forum: Boundedly Rational Ethical Choice
DESCRIPTION:Bounded rationality is the study of how choice and behavior is shaped by computational bounds and the structure of the task environment\, including time constraint or limits on available information (Simon\, 1955). In this talk I present new work on boundedly rational ethical decisions in which we show empirically that patterns of so-called contextual preference reversals that arise in economic and other domains also arise in problems involving choice among disaster rescue plans with different probabilistic outcomes for saving lives. These reversals are widely understood to challenge characterizations of human decision making grounded in rational choice theory\, but recent theoretical work (Howes et al.\, 2016) demonstrates how they arise from an agent making expected utility-maximizing choices in the face of perceptual and cognitive bounds. We show that this general theory extends naturally to our new empirical paradigm\, demonstrating the possibility of rigorous accounts of bounded rationality in ethical domains. I will also preview new empirical work that uses process-tracing methods to investigate decision strategies in a domain based on a complex real-world legal decision problem: setting bail.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69634
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium
LOCATION:East Hall - 4464
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DTSTAMP:20200128T091629
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group: \"Making Hay out of Armenian: A Whirlwind Tour\"
DESCRIPTION:HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics\, Anthropology\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, Classics\, Germanic Languages\, Near Eastern Studies\, Romance Languages\, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities\, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70209
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
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DTSTAMP:20200128T143252
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Annual Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies
DESCRIPTION:PETER E. GORDON is the Amabel B. James Professor of History\, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures\, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is primarily a critical theorist and an historian of modern European philosophy and social thought\, specializing in Frankfurt School critical theory\, phenomenology\, existentialism\, and Western Marxism.  He has published major works on Heidegger\, the Frankfurt School\, Jürgen Habermas\, and Theodor W. Adorno.  His book Rosenzweig and Heidegger:  Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003) received four international awards\, including the Salo Baron Prize for the best book in Jewish history\, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for the best book in Jewish philosophy\, and the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. His second book\, Continental Divide:  Heidegger\, Cassirer\, Davos (2010) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society\, one of the most distinguished awards in European and American cultural history.  His third and more recent monograph\, Adorno and Existence\, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016\, and was reviewed in periodicals such as Critical Inquiry (by Robert Pippin) and The New York Review of Books.  His next book\, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization\, based on lectures he gave at Yale University in the Franz Rosenzweig Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought\, is forthcoming from Yale University Press (Fall\, 2020).  He is also co-author of Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory with Wendy Brown and Max Pensky (2018).   In June\, 2019\, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Theodor W. Adorno's death in 1969\, he delivered the Adorno Vorlesungen at the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt\, on the theme\, \"Adorno and the Sources of Normativity.\"  The lectures\, widely reviewed in the German press\, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting\, are currently available online from the Institut für Sozialforschung\, and will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71245
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
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