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The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk: (6 The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology)

The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk: (6 The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology)


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Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological policy making against its critics, while at the same time avoiding a number of identified flaws. The theory is shown to have far-reaching practical conclusions for areas such as bio-, information- and nuclear technology, and global environmental policy in areas such as climate change. The author argues that, while the price we pay for precaution must not be too high, we have to be prepared to pay it in order to act ethically defensible. A number of practical suggestions for precautionary regulation and policy making are made on the basis of this, and some challenges to basic ethical theory as well as consumerist societies, the global political order and liberal democracy are identified.

Munthe's book is a well-argued contribution to the PP debate, putting neglected justificatory and methodological questions at the forefront. His many discussions of alternative accounts as well as his drawing out the consequences of his own suggestion in practical cases give the reader a thorough, holistic sense of what justification of PP amounts to. /..../ Munthe's main case, his argumentation for the requirement of precaution as a moral norm, is convincing and puts a strong pressure on too narrow alternative suggestions on how it should be perceived and justified, and he launches a plausible defence of its practical usability.



Table of Contents:
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Background.- 1.1.1 Diversity and Unclarity.- 1.1.2 The Price of Precaution.- 1.1.3 Precaution, Risk Analysis and Models of Rationality.- 1.1.4 The Ideal of the Desirability of Precaution.- 1.2 Aim,Plan and Basis.- 1.2.1 Plan of the Book.- 1.2.2 The Requirement of Precaution.- 1.2.3 Degrees of Precaution.- References.- 2 Dimensions of Precaution.- 2.1 Values, Levels and Time-Horizons.- 2.1.1 Values.- 2.1.2 Levels and Time-Horizons.- 2.2 May Bring Great Harm.- 2.2.1 De MinimisRisk and the Need for a Limit.- 2.2.2 The Argument from Decision Costs.- 2.3 Show.- 2.3.1 Proof-Standards.- 2.3.2 Decisional Paralysis.- 2.3.3 The Holistic Nature of Precaution.- 2.3.4 Conservatism and Arbitrariness.- 2.4 Risk.- 2.4.1 Likelihoods, Values or Combinations?.- 2.4.2 Quantities, Qualities and Levels of Precision.- 2.4.3 Objective or Subjective?.- 2.5 Too Serious.- 2.6 SummingUp.- References.- Contents.- 3 Precaution and Rationality.- 3.1 Rational Action – the Standard View.- 3.1.1 Efficiency, Value Neutrality and Calculated Risk Taking.- 3.1.2 Enlightment Critique and the Charge of Instrumental Rationality.- 3.2 Rational Precaution.- 3.2.1 Ignorance, Precaution and the Maximin Rule.- 3.2.2 Limitations of Plausibility, Applicability and Status.- 3.3 From Rationality to Morality.- 3.3.1 Rawls’ Appeal to Responsibility.- 3.3.2 Moral Opinions About Risk Impositions.- 3.3.3 Moral Dilemmas of Precaution.- References.- 4 Ethics and Risks.- 4.1 Traditional Criteria of Rightness.- 4.1.1 TheDiversity ofNormativeEthic.- 4.1.2 Factualism and the Silence on Risks.- 4.1.3 Autonomy and Justice.- 4.1.4 The Two Level Approach.- 4.2 The Virtue of Precaution.- 4.3 AbandoningFactualism.- 4.3.1 The Forbidden Risks Approach.- 4.3.2 Trading Off Risks and Harms 1: Apples and Oranges.- 4.3.3 Trading Off Risks and Harms 2: Improving Practical Guidance.- 4.3.4 Trading Off Risks and Harms 3: The Knowability Argument.- 4.3.5 Trading Off Risks and Harms 4: Back to Square One References.- 5 The Morality of Imposing Risks.- 5.1 Basic Structure.- 5.2 The Problem of Guidance.- 5.3 Basic Intuitions About Responsibility.- 5.3.1 Absolutes or Degrees?.- 5.3.2 What About Intentions?.- 5.3.3 Assessing and Comparing Degrees of Responsibility.- 5.3.4 Avoiding Indeterminacy – Possibility and Desirability.- 5.4 Areas of Precaution.- 5.4.1 Beyond Risk Neutrality.- 5.4.2 The Quality of Available Evidence.- 5.5 The Weight of Evil.- 5.5.1 Conceptual Preliminaries.- 5.5.2 Five Approaches.- 5.5.3 The Case Against Rigidity.- 5.5.4 Rigidity of Aggregation and the Notion of Rights.- 5.5.5 Simple Progressiveness.- 5.5.6 The Case for Relative Progressiveness.- 5.6 Problems with Relative Progressiveness.- 5.6.1 What Implications for other Normative Issues?.- 5.6.2 The Lack of Numerical Exactness.- 5.6.3 What Size of the Weight?.- 5.6.4 Pure or Mixed Relative Progressiveness?.- 5.6.5 What Makes for an Acceptable Mix of Risks and Chances?.- 5.7 SummingUp.- References.- 6 Practical Applications.- 6.1 General Cases.- 6.1.1 Consumerism.- 6.1.2 Why Individual Motivation Should Not Be the Target.- 6.1.3 Precaution as a Collective Good and the Need for a Politics of Power.- 6.2 Hard Cases.- 6.2.1 Climate Change and Pollution.- 6.2.2 Nuclear Power and Energy Production.- 6.2.3 Biotechnology.- 6.3 Policy.- 6.3.1 Do We Really Need a PP?.- 6.3.2 Principlism vs. Proceduralism.- 6.3.3 De Minimis Revisited.- 6.3.4Justifying the Proof Requirement of Justifiable Policy Claim.- 6.3.5 Justifying the Burden of Proof Requirement.- 6.3.6 Conservatism Revisited.- 6.4 Big Questions.- 6.4.1 The Enlightment Ideals Revisited.- 6.4.2 The Remaining Challenge of Values.- 6.4.3 The Case for Cosmopolitan Precaution.- 6.4.4 Unrealistic and Dangerous?.- 6.4.5 A Challenge for Liberal Democracy?.- References.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400736184
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9400736185
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 6 The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology


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