Risk
Subtitle: philosophical perspectives
By: edited by Tim Lewens.
Contributors: Lewens, Tim.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780415422833; 9780415422840
Subjects: Risk assessment; Risk management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Risk and ethics : three approaches / Sven Ove Hansson; title: Towards a non-consequentialist approach to acceptable risks / Carl Cranor; title: What is the value of preventing a fatality? / Jonathan Wolff; title: On multi-attribute risk analysis / Martin Peterson; title: Great expectations / Adam Morton; title: Common sense precaution and varieties of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin; title: Acting under risk / D.H. Mellor; title: Towards a political philosophy of risk : experts and publics in deliberative democracy / Martin Kusch; title: Moral heuristics and risk / Cass Sunstein; title: Risk and terrorism / Alan Ryan; title: Risk, harm, interests, and rights / Stephen Perry.