Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work  with N. Pedersen)

The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this paper, we first briefly outline the current state of the debate with regards to non-probabilistic notions of risk and then present and discuss different forms that pluralism about risk could take, drawing on pluralist ideas in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophies of truth and logic. In the last section, we investigate how each type of risk pluralism will assess a given thought experiment which will help to highlight their differences and identify predictions for further experimental work on risk pluralism.