Open AccessFacing Up To Risk
Author(s) -
Barbara H. Fried
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of legal analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.797
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2161-7201
pISSN - 1946-5319
DOI - 10.1093/jla/laz003
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , tort , liability , law and economics , sociology , law , political science , business , social science
By banishing decision-making in the face of uncertainty (risk) to the margins of tort theory, nonconsequentialist legal philosophers have obscured the quotidian, unavoidable, and ubiquitous tradeoffs we face in almost every arena of life. This article explores the historical antecedents of the marginalization of risk in contemporary moral philosophy, and details how legal philosophers have deflected the challenge that risk poses to any nonconsequentialist theory of tort liability.
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