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

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Scherz, Paul J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.