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OverviewRisks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent controllable and calculable. Conceiving of dangers in this way implies a need to analyse how we hold people responsible for risks and how we can and should take responsibility for risks. Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society combines philosophical discussion of different concepts and notions of responsibility with context-specific applications in the areas of health, technology and environment. The book consists of two parts addressing two crucial aspects of risks and responsibility: holding agents responsible, i.e. ascribing and distributing responsibility for risks, and taking responsibility for risk. More specifically, the book discusses the values of fairness and efficacy in responsibility distributions and makes distinctions between backward-looking and forward-looking responsibility as well as individual and collective responsibility. Additionally, it analyses what it means to take responsibility for technological risks, conceptualising this kind of responsibility as a virtue, and furthermore, explores the notion of responsible risk communication and the implications for adult-child relationships. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist (Uppsala University, Sweden)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367586065ISBN 10: 0367586061 Pages: 186 Publication Date: 30 June 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Permissions Introduction: Moral Responsibility and Risk PART 1: HOLDING AGENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR RISK Introduction to part 1: Moral Responsibility – the Philosophical Discussion 1. Fairness and Efficacy in Responsibility Distributions 2. Backward-looking and Forward-looking Responsibility 3. Individual and Collective Responsibility PART 2: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR RISK Introduction to part 2: Responsibility as a Virtue 4. Taking Responsibility for Technological Risk 5. Responsible Risk Communication 6. Children, Risk & Responsibility IndexReviewsJessica Nihlen-Fahlquist offers a clear, analytic discussion of moral problems that arise as we seek to hold people responsible for the risks (rather than the actual harm) they impose on us and others. Her discussion of fair risk distributions, as well as the distinction between backward and forward-looking responsibility, will be of significant interest to anyone working in the field. The discussion of individual and collective responsibility adds valuable perspectives to an important academic debate with major societal implications. I warmly recommend this book to scholars, graduate students and others interested in the philosophy of risk and responsibility. -- Martin Peterson, Professor of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA Author InformationJessica Nihlén Fahlquist has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is a senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University in Sweden. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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