Tomorrow's troubles : risk, anxiety, and prudence in an age of algorithmic governance /

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"Probabilistic predictions of future risk govern much of society: healthcare, genetics, social media, national security, and finance. Both policy-makers and private companies are increasingly working to design institutional structures that seek to manage risk by controlling the behavior of citi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scherz, Paul J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Virtues.
Virtue.
Ethics.
Probabilities > Moral and ethical aspects.
Risk > Moral and ethical aspects.
Vertus.
Morale.
Probabilités > Aspect moral.
Risque > Aspect moral.
ethics (philosophy)
RELIGION / Ethics
Virtues
Virtue
Risk > Moral and ethical aspects
Ethics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From Contingency to Probability
  • Practical Reason and Probability Theory
  • Anxiety and the Temporality of Risk
  • The Hunger for Security
  • The Shifting Meaning of Probability
  • Responsibility for Risk
  • Probabilistic Mechanisms of Control
  • Algorithms and the Demonic
  • Christian Responsibility
  • The Role of Risk Assessment in Prudential Judgment
  • The Epimethean Society.

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