Emotions and Risky Technologies
By offering an innovative and challenging approach to the topic of risk and emotion, this book covers completely new territory. It focuses on risk and emotion from the perspective of moral philosophy and emphasizes that emotions are an important source of
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The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology VOLUME 5
Editors Anthony Mark Cutter, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Bert Gordijn, Ethics Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland Gary E. Marchant, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, University of Arizona, USA Alain Pompidou, Former President, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany Editorial Board Dieter Birnbacher, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King’s College London, UK Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic & Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff, UK Paul Stephen Dempsey, Professor & Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law, Université de Montréal, Canada Michael Froomkin, Professor, University of Miami Law School, Florida, USA Serge Gutwirth, Professor of Human Rights, Comparative Law, Legal theory and Methodology, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium Henk ten Have, Director, UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Paris, France Søren Holm, Director, Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society, Cardiff, UK George Khushf, Humanities Director, Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, USA Justice Michael Kirby; High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia Bartha Maria Knoppers, Chair in Law and Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada David Krieger, President, The Waging Peace Foundation, California, USA Graeme Laurie, Co-Director, AHRC Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, UK Rene Oosterlinck, Director of External Relations, European Space Agency, Paris Edmund Pellegrino, Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, USA John Weckert, Professor, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia
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Editor Sabine Roeser Department of Philosophy Delft University of Technology 2628 BX Delft Netherlands [email protected]
ISSN 1875-0044 e-ISSN 1875-0036 ISBN 978-90-481-8646-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8647-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8647-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924810 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
In Memory of Robert Solomon
Foreword
“Acceptable Risk” – On the Rationality (and Irrationality) of Emotional Evaluations of Risk What is “acceptable risk”? That question is appropriate in a number of different contexts, pol
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