By Cass R. Sunstein (auth.), Sabine Roeser (eds.)
By delivering an cutting edge and not easy method of the subject of danger and emotion, this booklet covers thoroughly new territory. It makes a speciality of hazard and emotion from the viewpoint of ethical philosophy and emphasizes that feelings are a major resource of ethical wisdom. The ebook connects to big debates approximately danger and emotion in empirical selection concept. despite the fact that, while in those debates, feelings are in most cases visible as a danger for rational determination making, this e-book investigates the unconventional concept that feelings will be a normative advisor in making judgments approximately morally applicable dangers.
Technological hazards comparable to cloning, GM-foods, and nuclear power spark heated and emotional debates. many folks are frightened of the potential undesirable effects of such applied sciences. this offers upward thrust to the subsequent normative query: can we want feelings with the intention to be capable to pass judgement on even if a expertise and its concomitant hazards are morally appropriate? this query has direct functional implications: may still engineers, scientists and coverage makers keen on constructing threat law take feelings (of the general public, but additionally their very own) heavily or no longer?
This booklet units the level for learn into ethical feelings and dicy applied sciences. It brings jointly prime students who paintings within the parts of threat conception, ethical feelings, and ethics of chance, and allows them to think of this fascinating and significant new subject. The ebook may be of curiosity for everyone concerned with chance law, either at an educational and a pragmatic level.
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Let us now turn to examples that are more controversial. 5 Morality and Risk Regulation My principal interest here is the relationship between moral heuristics and questions of law and policy. The catalogue is meant to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. 1 Cost-Benefit Analysis An automobile company is deciding whether to take certain safety precautions for its cars. In deciding whether to do so, it conducts a cost-benefit analysis, in which it 2 Here too the frame may indicate something about the speaker’s intentions, and subjects may be sensitive to the degree of certainty in the scenario (assuming, for example, that future deaths may not actually occur).