Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society: Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367586065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist

Opis

This book examines concepts and notions of moral responsibility in relation to health risks, technological risks and environmental risks. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

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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

Index

O autorze

Jessica 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.