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A Theory of Uncertainty: Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research

A Theory of Uncertainty: Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

Business GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 103273888X
ISBN13: 9781032738888
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 2 2024
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.

Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a taxonomy of categories which are deduced from a critical inventory in philosophy, social and natural sciences, and risk research. Comprising six parts, the philosophical grounding of uncertainty sets the stage for the following philosophical and social scientific accounts and explanation of four distinctive guises of uncertainty that form a taxonomic notion and rationale: ontological, epistemological, linguistic-communicative, and teleological uncertainty. The theoretical-conceptual rumination provides a complex, differentiated view of the anatomy of uncertainty and an understanding that can be used in further theoretical and empirical research, as well as socio-political practice. The latter is delineated in the final part addressing the societal domestication of uncertainty.

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