Fixed, high evidential standards vs. variable standards. What are they and how are they different from one another?
The five considerations that Elabbar offers as relevant deciding whether fixed, high evidential standards or variable standard are better. What each one means, which type of evidential standard Elabbar thinks it supports, and why.
Beneficence
Institutional responsiveness
Platform neutrality
Efficiency
Justice
Inductive risk. What this term means and why it applies to policy assessments.
Reliability and power. What they are and how they tradeoff against one another.
Evidential inequality. What this term means and why it applies to climate science.
Fundamental interests. What this term means, and an example of a fundamental interest.
Elabbar’sjustice-based argument against fixed, high evidential standards. Be able to explain it in your own words.
The two objections to his argument that Elabbar considers, and his responses to those objections
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