Tomorrow's Troubles
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Tomorrow's Troubles
Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance
Paul Scherz
The first examination of predictive technology from the perspective of Catholic theology Paul Scherz is an associate professor of moral theology and ethics in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Science and Christian Ethics. He has a PhD in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in genetics from Harvard University. David Cloutier, Darlene Weaver, and Andrea Vicini, SJ
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"Tomorrow's Troubles provides the careful ethical analysis we need to make sense of the dilemmas we face in our everyday lives today. As epitomized in the global pandemic, a probabilistic pursuit of risk minimization has effectively become the default criterion for both social deliberation and personal moral evaluation, yet few have interrogated the ethical implications of this trend. In Tomorrow's Troubles, Paul Scherz not only tackles these critical questions but also develops the theological and ethical tools to help us put the assessment of risk into its proper place, at the service of a genuine practice of prudential judgment."—Conor M. Kelly, associate professor of theology, Marquette University "Tomorrow's Troubles is a prophetic work calling readers to reevaluate the entire sociotechnical world. Technology, risk management, culture, and our mentality have distorted our core Christian commitments such as trust in God's providence and love for our neighbor. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time."—Brian Patrick Green, director of technology ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University ""— Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From Contingency to Probability Part I: The Subjective Experience of Risk 2. Practical Reason and Probability Theory 3. Anxiety and the Temporality of Risk 4. The Hunger for Security Part II: The Governance of Others as Object of Risk 5. The Shifting Meaning of Probability 6. Responsibility for Risk 7. Probabilistic Mechanisms of Control 8. Algorithms and the Demonic Part III: A Christian Approach to Risk and Decision Theory 9. Christian Responsibility 10. The Role of Risk Assessment in Prudential Judgment 11. The Epimethean Society Conclusion Bibliography |