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

Author:   Paul Scherz
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
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Author:   Paul Scherz
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
Imprint:   Georgetown University Press
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781647122706


ISBN 10:   1647122708
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. From Contingency to ProbabilityPart I: The Subjective Experience of Risk2. Practical Reason and Probability Theory3. Anxiety and the Temporality of Risk4. The Hunger for SecurityPart II: The Governance of Others as Object of Risk5. The Shifting Meaning of Probability6. Responsibility for Risk7. Probabilistic Mechanisms of Control8. Algorithms and the DemonicPart III: A Christian Approach to Risk and Decision Theory9. Christian Responsibility10. The Role of Risk Assessment in Prudential Judgment11. The Epimethean SocietyConclusionBibliography

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[T]his is a book that fully merits careful reading and consideration. It succeeds in doing what too few books on applied theology do, in that it draws deeply both on theology and on the particular issue to produce a new way of thinking about the issue and responding practically. * THEOLOGY * This book will be helpful to theologians, ethicists, pastors, and educated laypeople with a strong background in at least one of the traditions Scherz draws on: Thomism, pre-Christian Greco-Roman philosophy (especially Stoicism), and mid-20th-century Protestant ethics of responsibility (e.g., H. Richard Niebuhr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer). * Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics * [A]s a guide to life on an individual level, Scherz's paradigm has much to offer. * Law and Liberty *


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Paul Scherz is an associate professor of moral theology and ethics in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Science and Christian Ethics. He has a PhD in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in genetics from Harvard University.

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