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Risk: Philosophical Perspectives Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Tim Lewens (Editor)


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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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  • Title Risk: Philosophical Perspectives
  • Author Tim Lewens (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York, NY
  • Date 2007-05-11
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780415422833 / 0415422833
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.61 x 0.9 in (23.50 x 16.79 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Risk assessment, Risk management
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006039490
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.12

About the author

Tim Lewens is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and Artifacts (2004) and Darwin (Routledge, 2006).

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