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Risk and responsibility: a complex and evolving relationship.

Céline Kermisch1

  • 1Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Bioéthique (CP175/01), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 av. F. D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. ckermisc@ulb.ac.be

Science and Engineering Ethics
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This study explores the evolving link between risk and responsibility. Findings show these concepts are increasingly intertwined, suggesting a need to integrate virtue-responsibility into risk assessment for greater public trust and ethical management.

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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Risk Analysis
  • Ethics

Background:

  • The relationship between risk and responsibility lacks a single, clear definition.
  • Existing frameworks offer varied perspectives on how risk and responsibility interact.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the nature of the relationship between risk and responsibility.
  • To explore four distinct conceptions of risk and their connection to responsibility.
  • To identify shifts in the risk-responsibility nexus.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of different meanings of responsibility.
  • Analysis of four conceptions of risk: engineer's paradigm, cultural theory (Douglas), and frameworks by Rayner and Wolff.
  • Comparative analysis of how responsibility is integrated within each risk conception.

Main Results:

  • The engineer's paradigm views risk quantitatively, with responsibility located in risk management.
  • Mary Douglas' cultural theory posits that risks are constructed via engaged responsibilities.
  • Rayner and Wolff integrate responsibility directly into the definition of risk.
  • The analysis reveals an increasing intertwining of risk and responsibility concepts.

Conclusions:

  • The intertwining of risk and responsibility is driven by public awareness and calls for ethical risk management.
  • A form of virtue-responsibility should be integrated into the concept of risk.
  • This integration can enhance the ethical dimension of risk assessment and management.