The logical status of risk -- to burnish or to dull

Eugene A. Rosa

Journal of Risk Research, 2010, vol. 13, issue 3, 239-253

Abstract: Presented here is an elaboration of the fundamental features of the meaning of risk. It distinguishes between analytic approaches grounded in realism and postmodern (including constructionist) epistemologies and the presuppositions of each. It argues that attempts to fuse the ontology of risk with epistemological considerations into a common definition is both internally contradictory and a weak foundation for a theoretically justified definition of risk. In place of a fused definition of risk, it re-affirms a definition risk as a state of the world, independent of percipient actors.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/13669870903484351

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