Managing Performative Models

IF 0.6 1区哲学 Q4 ETHICS

Philosophy of the Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1177/00483931231172455

Donal Khosrowi

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Abstract

Scientific models can be performative: they can causally affect the phenomena they are intended to represent. The existing literature offers two responses. The appraisal view emphasizes that performativity can sometimes be a good-making model attribute, e.g., when predictions steer the public’s behavior in desirable ways. The mitigation view seeks to endogenize agents’ behavioral response to model-issued forecasts to get rid of performativity instead. This paper argues that neither approach is fully compelling: the appraisal view encounters severe concerns about moral values illegitimately encroaching on how modelers construct and use models, while the mitigation view fails to acknowledge that endogenization is itself a choice that involves substantive value-judgments relating to the desirability of certain social outcomes.

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科学模型可以是表演性的：它们可以对它们想要表现的现象产生因果影响。现有文献提供了两种回应。评估观点强调，绩效有时可以是一个很好的模型属性，例如，当预测以理想的方式引导公众的行为时。缓解观点试图将主体对模型发布的预测的行为反应内生化，以摆脱绩效。本文认为，这两种方法都不完全令人信服：评估观点遇到了对道德价值的严重担忧，道德价值非法侵犯了建模者构建和使用模型的方式，而缓解观点没有承认内生本身就是一种选择，涉及与某些社会结果的可取性相关的实质性价值判断。

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