Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. This talk was the 2004 Dewey Lecture. Prof. Singer was introduced by Martha Nussbaum.
Randal Picker is Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law and Senior Fellow at The Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; Douglas Lichtman was Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This discussion was presented by the Law School's Intellectual Property Law Society October 21, 2005.
In the absence of pre-cognitive superbeings and Tom Cruise, how are police and policy makers supposed to allocate scarce crime-fighting resources? There is a vibrant academic literature on predicting crime, with models of various types offered as the best way of estimating future crime rates.
