206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and pollution. As a consequence, technologies can trigger emotions, including fear and indignation, which... Read more
1. Introduction: Risk and Emotions
Part I: Risk Debates, Stalemates, Values and Emotions
2. Emotions and Values in Current Approaches to Decision Making about Risk
3. Risk Perception, Intuitions and Values
Part II: Reasonable Risk Emotions
4. Risk Emotions: The ‘Affect Heuristic’, its Biases and Beyond
5. The Philosophy of Moral Risk Emotions: Towards a new Paradigm of Risk Emotions
Part III: Emotional Deliberation about Risk
6. Reflection on and with Risk Emotions
7. Participation with Emotion
8. Emotional Deliberation on Technological Risks in Practice
Epilogue
Biography
Sabine Roeser is Professor of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
