{"product_id":"9789400714328","title":"Handbook of Risk Theory Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, and Social Implications of Risk","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHandbook of Risk Theory\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEpistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, and Social Implications of Risk\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSabine Roeser | Rafaela Hillerbrand | Per Sandin | Martin Peterson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience \/ Philosophy \u0026amp; Social Aspects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRisk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. But the topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research. It addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk, and it also addresses specific case studies. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoetical issues concerning risk and uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis handbook brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. We hope that the \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Risk Theory\u003c\/i\u003e will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSabine Roeser\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Philosophy and Ethics at Twente University (Socrates Chair, part-time), Associate Professor of Ethics at TU Delft, and managing director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. She has been trained in fine arts, philosophy and political science, with a PhD in ethical theory. She has obtained various prestigious research grants for her innovative research on risk and moral emotions. She currently leads a research group on ‘Moral Emotions and Risk Politics’. She is regularly interviewed for popular media in the Netherlands. She has organized many international conferences. Roeser has given more than 100 presentations at international conferences and other academic events. Roeser has published numerous articles in e.g. \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Value Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Risk Research\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScience and Engineering Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e. Roeser has (co-)edited the following books: \u003ci\u003eEmotions and Risky Technologies, \u003c\/i\u003eSpringer (2010), \u003ci\u003eThomas Reid on Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, Palgrave Macmillan (2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics ofTechnological Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, Earthscan (2009), and \u003ci\u003eBasic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers inEpistemology\u003c\/i\u003e, Ontos (2005). She is author of the monograph \u003ci\u003eMoral Emotions and Intuitions\u003c\/i\u003e, Palgrave Macmillan(2011).Personal website: www.tbm.tudelft.nl\/sroeser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRafaela Hillerbrand\u003c\/b\u003e is head of the research group Ethics for Energy Technology. Before joining HumTec Rafaela Hillerbrand was working as a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford on epistemological and ethical problems for decions under risk and uncertainty. Hillerbrand's research traverse epistemological problems related to the interpretations of probabilities, quantitative modelling, and foundational aspect of statistical mechanics. Hillerbrand holds a PhD in theoretical physics as well as a PhD in philosophy. For her book on the ethics of technology, which covers aspects of applied ethics just as well as genuinetheoretical normative ethics, she received the Lilli-Bechmann-Rahn-Preis of the University Erlangen Nürnberg in 2005. Her PhD in physics was awarded the Ingrid-zu-Solms Naturwissenschaftspreis 2008. She is an elected member of the German Young Academy of Sciences (Junge Akademie).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePer Sandin\u003c\/b\u003e received his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 2005 on a thesis entitled \u003ci\u003eBetter Safe than Sorry: Applying Philosophical Methods to the Debate on Risk and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Precautionary Principle\u003c\/i\u003e. He has mainly worked in applied ethics and topics on risk and policy, and his work has appeared in journals such as \u003ci\u003eHuman and Ecological Risk Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Risk Research \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEthical Theory and Moral Practice. \u003c\/i\u003eBetween 1999 and 2005 he was editorial assistant of \u003ci\u003eTheoria \u003c\/i\u003eand associate editor for the same journal between 2005 and 2007. In the spring of 2009 he is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra, Australia.Personal website: www.infra.kth.se\/~sandin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Martin Peterson\u003c\/b\u003e is author of two books, \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Decision Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(Cambridge University Press, 2009) and \u003ci\u003eNon-Bayesian Decision Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(Springer, 2008). He has published about 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Risk Analysis, the Journal of Philosophy, and the Journal of Risk Research. Peterson received his PhD in philosophy in 2003 from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology. Between 2005 and 2008 he worked for three years at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of Studies in Philosophy at St Edmund's College. 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