TY  - CONF
A1  - Hillerbrand, Rafaela
T1  - Technology assessment between risk, uncertainty and ignorance
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 078
N2  - The use of most if not all technologies is accompanied by negative side effects, While we may profit from today’s technologies, it is most often future generations who bear most risks. Risk analysis therefore becomes a delicate issue, because future risks often cannot be assigned a meaningful occurance probability. This paper argues that technology assessement most often deal with uncertainty and ignorance rather than risk when we include future generations into our ethical, political or juridal thinking. This has serious implications as probabilistic decision approaches are not applicable anymore. I contend that a virtue ethical approach in which dianoetic virtues play a central role may supplement a welfare based ethics in order to overcome the difficulties in dealing with uncertainty and ignorance in technology assessement.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 078 
KW  - technology assessment
KW  - climate change
KW  - ethics
KW  - risk
KW  - uncertainty
KW  - virtue
KW  - expected utility
KW  - decision theory
KW  - intergenerational justice
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24936
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249367
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -