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157The ethics of truth-telling and the problem of riskScience and Engineering Ethics 5 (4): 489-510. 1999.Risk communication poses a challenge to ordinary norms of truth-telling because it can easily mislead. Analyzing this challenge in terms of a systematic divergence between expertise and public attitudes fails to recognize how two specific features of the concept of risk play a role in managing daily affairs. First, evaluating risk always incorporates an estimate of the reliability of information. Since risk communication is an effort at providing information, audiences will naturally and appropr…Read more
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64Borgmann on commodification: A comment on real american ethicsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (1): 75-84. 2008.
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