Date: December 16, 2025 Time: 2:00 PM Venue: Aula Consiglio, Building 29 “Carta”, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 26
In a world characterised by the challenges of climate change, new technologies, and growing instabilities, risk is increasingly relevant both in our daily life and in academic research. And while risk has remained mostly peripheral to philosophical reflections, philosophy can significantly contribute to a full understanding of risk and of its implications for science and society. This workshop aims to address the concept of risk in its multifaceted dimensions, bringing together different perspectives and exploring its relation with uncertainty, decisions, and action.
Programme:
- 14:00 – 14:40 Roberto Fumagalli (King’s College London): “A meta-precautionary solution to the dilemma of precaution”
- 14:40 – 15:20 Filippo Mancini (IUSS Pavia), Ciro De Florio & Aldo Frigerio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore): “Uncertainty and normal risks”
- 15:20 – 15:50 Break
- 15:50 – 16:30 Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano): “On the risk of climate catastrophes: Prudence in the face of uncertainty”
- 16:30 – 17:10 Annalisa Costella (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) & Enrico Mattia Salonia (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata): “A theory of acting against the odds”
- 17:10 – 17:40 Break
- 17:40 – 18:20 Luca Zanetti (IUSS Pavia): “Risk as intersubjective probability”
Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.
The event is organized by Malvina Ongaro, Giacomo Zanotti, Pavel Janda and Daniele Chiffi.
