Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework

ISBN-13: 9780199594054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 235 str.

Oberdiek, John

Opis

We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? This book highlights these important but neglected questions and offers novel answers to them in a systematic way, constructing a normative framework of risk imposition that draws upon a wide range of insights from diverse sources within philosophy and legal theory.

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Recenzje

John Oberdiek tackles one of the hardest problems in moral and legal philosophy â the question of when it is wrong to impose risks on others and why. With characteristic clarity, insight, and depth he defends the right that people have against having risks imposed on them in the light of more fundamental values, especially the value of autonomy. He offers his account in the context of a more comprehensive non-consequentialist moral and legal theory. Imposing Risk is a terrific achievement.

O autorze

John Oberdiek is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. He is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Educated in philosophy and law at Middlebury, Oxford, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania, Oberdiek has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.