Risk: Philosophical Perspectives
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Risk: Philosophical Perspectives

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How can we determine an acceptable level of risk? Should these decisions be made by experts, or by the people they affect? How should safety and security be balanced against other goods, such as liberty?

This is the first collection to examine the philosophical dimensions of these pressing practical problems. Leading scholars exploring the full range of philosophical implications of risk, including:

  • risk and ethics
  • risk and rationality
  • risk and scientific expertise
  • risk and lay knowledge
  • the objectivity of risk assessment
  • risk and the precautionary principle
  • risk and terror.

With contributions from Carl F. Cranor, Sven Ove Hansson, Martin Kusch, Tim Lewens, D.H. Mellor, Adam Morton, Stephen Perry, Martin Peterson, Alan Ryan, Per Sandin, Cass R. Sunstein and Jonathan Wolff; this collection is essential reading, not only for philosophers and researchers in legal, economic and environmental studies, but for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the decisions we must make as concerned citizens.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
9781134100279
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. RISK: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  7. INTRODUCTION: Risk and philosophy
  8. 1: RISK AND ETHICS: Three approaches
  9. 2: TOWARD A NON-CONSEQUENTIALIST APPROACH TO ACCEPTABLE RISKS
  10. 3: WHAT IS THE VALUE OF PREVENTING A FATALITY?
  11. 4: ON MULTI-ATTRIBUTE RISK ANALYSIS
  12. 5: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  13. 6: COMMON-SENSE PRECAUTION AND VARIETIES OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
  14. 7: ACTING UNDER RISK
  15. 8: TOWARDS A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF RISK: Experts and publics in deliberative democracy
  16. 9: MORAL HEURISTICS AND RISK
  17. 10: RISK AND TERRORISM
  18. 11: RISK, HARM, INTERESTS, AND RIGHTS