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Risk Analysis and Scientific Method

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In the fifteenth volume of his Annals, Tacitus recognized a dilemma. He noted that “the desire for safety lies over and against every great and noble enterprise.”

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  1. Carl Gersuny, Work Hazards and Industrial Conflicts, University Press of New England, London, 1981, p. 20; hereafter cited as Hazards.

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  2. Quoted by Gersuny, Hazards, p. 20.

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  3. Gersuny, Hazards, p. 20. See also E. A. Crouch and R. Wilson, Risk/Benefit Analysis, Ballinger, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 12, 26, 40, 42, 44; hereafter cited as: RBA.

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  5. H. Kunreuther and E. Ley, ‘Overview’, in The Risk Analysis Controversy (edited by Kunreuther and Ley), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982, p. 4, make this same point; hereafter cited as: RAC.

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  6. S. Levine, ‘Panel: Use of Risk Assessment’, in Symposium/ Workshop ... Risk Assessment and Governmental Decision Making (edited by the Mitre Corporation, McLean, Virginia, 1979, p. 634, is one of those who believes that risk assessment is a science.

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  8. Risk Analysis Research and Demonstration Act of 1982, Sec. 2. (a), 11–12, 19–22; hereafter cited as: RARDA.

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  9. RARDA, Sec. 2. (b), 3–4.

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  10. RARDA, Sec. 2. (b), 9–12.

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  11. See, for example, Philosophy and Economic Theory (edited by Frank Hahn and Martin Hollis), Oxford University Press, New York, 1979; John Harsanyi, Essays on Ethics, Social Behavior, and Scientific Explanation, Reidel, Boston, 1976; and K. S. Shrader-Frechette, Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology, Reidel, Boston, 1984, esp. Chapters 4–7.

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Florida, USA

    K. S. Shrader-Frechette

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Shrader-Frechette, K.S. (1985). Overview. In: Risk Analysis and Scientific Method. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5241-6_1

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