The Precautionary Principle

A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 248-262

  Stirling, Andy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SPRU Institute for Development Studies ESRC funded 'STEPS' Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inherently normative character of precautionary principle rendering it intrinsically irrational; Practical implications substantive significance of precautionary principle resting largely in the specific institutional frameworks; Precautionary principle; Precautionary principle subject to a wide array of criticisms; Precautionary principle involving normative distillation of more than a century of experience with unexpected consequences of new knowledges and technologies; Variant of charge of irrationality resting in the particular orientation of normative presumption of precaution in favor of environment

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EID: 84866459520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310795.ch43     Document Type: Chapter

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