caa a22 4500 606238077 CHVBK 20210128101256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9552-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9552-6 Morgan-Knapp Christopher Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut Nonconsequentialist Precaution [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Morgan-Knapp] How cautious should regulators be? A standard answer is consequentialist: regulators should be just cautious enough to maximize expected social value. This paper charts the prospects of a nonconsequentialist - and more precautionary - alternative. More specifically, it argues that a contractualism focused on ex ante consent can motivate the following regulatory criterion: regulators should permit a socially beneficial risky activity only if no one can be expected to be made worse off by it. Broadly speaking, there are two strategies regulators can use to help risky activities satisfy this criterion: regulators can mandate strict safety standards that protect those who would otherwise stand to lose, and they can require that some of the benefits of the activity be redirected to them. In developing these themes, the paper aims to provide a theoretical grounding for those who oppose using risk-cost-benefit analysis as the primary regulatory standard, and in particular, for advocates of the precautionary principle. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Contractualism nationallicence Risk nationallicence Ex ante nationallicence Regulation nationallicence Precautionary principle nationallicence Cost-benefit analysis nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 785-797 1386-2820 18:4<785 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9552-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9552-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morgan-Knapp Christopher Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 785-797 1386-2820 18:4<785 2015 18 10677