Risk : philosophical perspectives / edited by Tim Lewens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewens, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk assessment.

Risk management.

Physical Description:

x, 217 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

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. d 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.

Contents:

Risk and ethics : three approaches / Sven Ove Hansson

Towards a non-consequentialist approach to acceptable risks / Carl F. Cranor

What is the value of preventing a fatality? / Jonathan Wolff

On multi-attribute risk analysis / Martin Peterson

Great expectations / Adam Morton

Common-sense precaution and varieties of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin

Acting under risk / D.H. Mellor

Towards a political philosophy of risk : experts and publics in deliberative democracy / Martin Kusch

Moral heuristics and risk / Cass R. Sunstein

Risk and terrorism / Alan Ryan

Risk, harm, interests, and rights / Stephen Perry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415422833

0415422833

9780415422840

0415422841

9780203962596

0203962591

OCLC:

76937308