Claire Field: "What is Normative Recklessness?"
Claire Field (Glasgow)
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Abstract: Recklessness is an evaluative concept used to describe a negatively evaluable attitude towards risk. It has been most extensively theorized in the law, where it is a criminal state of mind, to be distinguished from other criminal states of mind – knowledge, intention, and negligence. However, its usage is not confined to the law. There is a much more general sense of recklessness used to describe blameworthy, foolish, or otherwise negatively evaluable risk-taking in various different normative domains. In this paper, I draw on and expand upon the legal concept of recklessness to offer an analysis of this more general concept.
Claire Field, Research Associate on the ERC project KnowledgeLab hosted by COGITO at the University of Glasgow, presents the seventh paper of Michaelmas Term 2023 "What is Normative Recklessness?".
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