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Risk as a distributive concern.

Gallagher, Katie Jane.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Risk as a distributive concern./
Author:	Gallagher, Katie Jane.
Description:	283 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4547.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-12A.
Subject:	Ethics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3428504
ISBN:	9781124280899

Risk as a distributive concern.
Gallagher, Katie Jane.

Risk as a distributive concern. - 283 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4547.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2010.

This dissertation seeks to fill a gap in the philosophical literature by asking how risk should be understood as a matter of political and social justice. It argues that risk presents one of the most pervasive, but understudied, problems from the point of view of the just state, and it suggests a way forward for public policy decisions, such that justice claims with regard to risk may eventually be better met. The central argument of the project is that risk poses a problem for contemporary society because it is imposed upon, and borne by, members of the state in a way that does not adhere to certain required distributive constraints. These distributive constraints are generated by the fact that risk, properly conceived, constitutes a form of harm. The work done towards this conclusion is divided into two stages, each corresponding to a respective half of the dissertation. The first half of the dissertation is dedicated to proving the claim that risk imposition, in itself, is a form of harm. The first chapter explicates, and responds to, arguments made within the context of the philosophy of tort law that hold that the nature of risk precludes its classification as a harm. The second chapter develops the positive argument of the project by presenting an original, 'possible worlds' conceptualization of risk and value that shows how risk can constitute a harm in itself. The dissertation's second half is dedicated to working out the normative public policy implications of the risk-as-harm thesis argued for in chapter two. The third chapter shows how the 'possible worlds' conceptualization of risk, because it denies that utility is separable across possibility, is inconsistent with the use of standard cost-benefit analyses as appropriate guides for individual and social choice. The fourth chapter asks how it is that social decisions regarding risk are to be made, give chapter three's rejection of approaches based on expected utility. It rejects deontological solutions to risk regulation, and argues for a consequentialist approach that incorporates appropriate concern for risk as a distribuend.

ISBN: 9781124280899Subjects--Topical Terms:

517264
Ethics.

Risk as a distributive concern.
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