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ISBN 10: 0415422840
ISBN 13: 9780415422840
Author: Tim Lewens
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.
Risk Philosophical Perspectives 1st Table of contents:
1: RISK AND ETHICS: Three approaches
Clarifying the value dependence of risk assessments
Analysing risks and risk decisions from an ethical point of view
Developing moral theory so that it can deal with issues of risk
Notes
References
2: TOWARD A NON-CONSEQUENTIALIST APPROACH TO ACCEPTABLE RISKS
Introduction
A partial account of the acceptability of risks
Toward a non-consquentialist moral approach to the acceptability of risks
Non-consequentialist guidance for assessing risks
Conclusion
Notes
References
3: WHAT IS THE VALUE OF PREVENTING A FATALITY?
Introduction
Life-saving and risk reduction
Derivation of VPF figures
The variable value of preventing a fatality
The value of reducing a standard risk of death
Conclusion
Notes
References
4: ON MULTI-ATTRIBUTE RISK ANALYSIS
Introduction
Two approaches to risk analysis
What is multi-attribute risk analysis?
Some attributes are incomparable
Incomparability and the money-pump
Is the argument too broad?
Notes
References
5: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Variability and expectation: three facts
What you really prefer
Choosing how to choose
Against rules
Notes
References
6: COMMON-SENSE PRECAUTION AND VARIETIES OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Introduction
Rules of choice
Epistemic rules and principles
Procedural requirements
The everyday concept of precaution
Conclusion
Notes
References
7: ACTING UNDER RISK
Ends and means
Risk and uncertainty
Description and prescription
Subjective prescriptions
Acting under uncertainty
Notes
References
8: TOWARDS A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF RISK: Experts and publics in deliberative democracy
Introduction
Sunstein’s paternalist philosophy of risk
Jasanoff’s and Wynne’s participatory philosophy of risk
Against Sunstein’s paternalism
Against Jasanoff’s and Wynne’s participatory politics
Conclusions
Notes
References
9: MORAL HEURISTICS AND RISK
Introduction
Ordinary heuristics, probability, and an insistent homunculus
Heuristics and morality
The Asian disease problem and moral framing
Morality and risk regulation
Rules and blunders
Notes
References
10: RISK AND TERRORISM
Preamble
Risk and the rational assessment of risk
How terrorism takes advantage of ‘framing problems’
References
11: RISK, HARM, INTERESTS, AND RIGHTS
Introduction
Risk is not harm
Risk, interests, and rights
Notes
References
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