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Risk 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. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. 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. This brief offers the essentials of the handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research and addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoretical issues concerning risk and uncertainty.   The Essentials of Risk Theory 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. The Essentials of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives.  .

Economics. --- Risk theory. --- Social science. --- Risk management --- Business & Economics --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Economic Theory --- Risk. --- Risk assessment. --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Philosophy. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Philosophy and science. --- Game theory. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Economic theory. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Accidents --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Prevention --- Decision making --- Evaluation --- Economics --- Uncertainty --- Probabilities --- Profit --- Risk-return relationships --- Mathematics. --- System safety. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Math --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Security systems. --- Econometrics. --- Technology --- Game Theory. --- Operations Research and Decision Theory. --- Security Science and Technology. --- Quantitative Economics. --- Technology and civilization --- Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Security measures --- Burglary protection

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Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics

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Technology --- Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Technological risk assessment --- Risk assessment --- Risk assessment. --- Ethics --- Monograph

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This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on emotion and value. They address questions including the role of emotions in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion, and the ability of emotions to ground ethical or aesthetic judgements.

Ethics. --- Emotions (Philosophy) --- Values.

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By offering an innovative and challenging approach to the topic of risk and emotion, this book covers completely new territory. It focuses on risk and emotion from the perspective of moral philosophy and emphasizes that emotions are an important source of moral knowledge. The book connects to important debates about risk and emotion in empirical decision theory. However, whereas in these debates, emotions are mainly seen as a threat for rational decision making, this book investigates the novel idea that emotions might be a normative guide in making judgments about morally acceptable risks. Technological risks such as cloning, GM-foods, and nuclear energy spark heated and emotional debates. Many people are afraid of the possible unwanted consequences of such technologies. This gives rise to the following normative question: do we need emotions in order to be able to judge whether a technology and its concomitant risks are morally acceptable? This question has direct practical implications: should engineers, scientists and policy makers involved in developing risk regulation take emotions (of the public, but also their own) seriously or not? This book sets the stage for research into moral emotions and risky technologies. It brings together leading scholars who work in the areas of risk perception, moral emotions, and ethics of risk, and lets them reflect on this exciting and important new topic. The book should be of interest for everybody involved with risk regulation, both at an academic and a practical level.

Philosophy --- General ethics --- Social sciences (general) --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- ethiek --- filosofie --- sociale wetenschappen --- emoties --- kernenergie --- ingenieurswetenschappen