Tomorrow's Troubles : Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance / Paul Scherz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scherz, Paul J., author.

Series:

Moral traditions series.

Moral Traditions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk--Moral and ethical aspects.

Risk.

Probabilities--Moral and ethical aspects.

Probabilities.

Ethics.

Virtue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Probabilistic predictions of future risk govern much of society: healthcare, genetics, social media, national security, and finance. Both policy-makers and private companies are increasingly working to design institutional structures that seek to manage risk by controlling the behavior of citizens and consumers, using new technologies of predictive control that comb through past data to predict and shape future action. These predictions not only control social institutions but also shape individual character and forms of practical reason. Risk-based decision theory shifts people's relationships to the future through knowledge of possible dangers and foregone opportunities, thus inspiring anxious solicitude and deceptive hopes for total security. This book uses virtue ethics to analyze these problems and to suggest ways to enjoy these technologies' positive benefits while constraining their dangerous aspects through a better understanding of practical reasoning and a theological analysis of our responsibility for future risks"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From Contingency to Probability

Practical Reason and Probability Theory

Anxiety and the Temporality of Risk

The Hunger for Security

The Shifting Meaning of Probability

Responsibility for Risk

Probabilistic Mechanisms of Control

Algorithms and the Demonic

Christian Responsibility

The Role of Risk Assessment in Prudential Judgment

The Epimethean Society.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Scherz, Paul Tomorrow's Troubles

ISBN:

9781647122713

OCLC:

1340403370