Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms Points of view extend from cultural relativists who believe that any risk can be justified (since no rational standards are ultimately possible) to naive positivists who believe that risk evaluation
| Title | : | Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms |
| Author | : | K. S. Shrader-Frechette |
| Format | : | Paperback - Pages ( 272 ) |
| Rating | : | 4.97 |
| Publish Date | : | 1991-09-19 |
| Id Book | : | 0520072898 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased their costs.Who is right? In Risk and Rationality, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that neither charges of irresponsible endangerment nor countercharges of scientific illiteracy frame the issues properly. She examines the debate over methodological norms for risk evaluation and finds analysts arrayed in a spectrum. Points of view extend from cultural relativists who believe that any risk can be justified (since no rational standards are ultimately possible) to naive positivists who believe that risk evaluation can be objective, neutral, and value free. Both camps, she argues, are wrong, because risk evaluation as a social process is rational and objective, even though all risk-evalua
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