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Regulating Toxic Substances - A Philosophy of Science and the Law (Hardcover, New)
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Regulating Toxic Substances - A Philosophy of Science and the Law (Hardcover, New)
Series: Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
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The proliferation of chemical substances in commerce poses
significant scientific and philosophical problems. The scientific
challenge is to develop data, methodologies and techniques for
identifying and assessing toxic substances before they cause harm
to human beings or the environment. The philosophical problem is to
determine how much scientific information we should demand for this
task consistent with the pursuit of other social goals. In this
book, Carl Cranor utilizes material from ethics, philosophy of law,
epidemiology, tort law, regulatory law, and risk assessment to
argue that the evidentiary standards for science used in the law to
control toxics ought to be evaluated with the purposes of the law
in mind. Demanding too much for this purpose will slow the
evaluation and lead to an excess of toxic substances left
unidentified and unassessed, thus leaving the public at risk.
Demanding too little may impose other costs. Analyzing this tension
philosophically, Cranor argues for an appropriate balance between
these social concerns. Although the use of somewhat less stringent
evidentiary standards for expert testimony in tort law cases and
the use of expedited procedures in the regulatory field might in
some cases lead to mistakes of overcompensation or overregulation,
the overall social costs would be less than the alternatives.
Justice requires that we tolerate the chance of such errors and
that we resist the temptation to demand the most science intensive
evaluation of each substance in order to protect individuals better
from mistakes of undercompensation and underregulation. The role of
science in the control of toxic substances is an important public
philosophical issue, yetuntil now has received little discussion by
philosophers. Regulating Toxic Substances addresses this subject in
a way that speaks both to a well-informed public and to experts in
several disciplines, including philosophy, risk assessment,
environmental and tort law, environmental studies, and public
health policy.
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