Imposing Risk

A Normative Framework
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-959405-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? This book highlights these important but neglected questions and offers novel answers to them in a systematic way, constructing a normative framework of risk imposition that draws upon a wide range of insights from diverse sources within philosophy and legal theory.

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Zielgruppe

Academics and students in the fields of philosophy of law and moral philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oberdiek, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Imposing Risk: Challenging the Very Idea

- 2: Moralizing Risk

- 3: The Moral Significance of Risking

- 4: A Right Against Risking

- 5: Justifiable Risking

Über Autor(innen)

Oberdiek, John
John Oberdiek is Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research at the Rutgers School of Law - Camden. He is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Educated in philosophy and law at Middlebury, Oxford, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania, Oberdiek has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

John Oberdiek is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. He is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Educated in philosophy and law at Middlebury, Oxford, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania, Oberdiek has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.