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Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Justification (or Why Legal (Un)certainty?) -- 1.1 Certainty as a Normative Principle -- 1.2 Certainty as an Old Goal -- 1.3 Social Causes of Legal Incertainty -- 1.4 Legal Causes of Legal Incertainty -- 1.5 Problems Derived from Legal Uncertainty -- 1.6 The Urgence of Analyzing Legal Certainty -- 1.7 The Present Task -- 2 Object (or in What Sense Will Legal Certainty Be Examined?) -- 3 Method (or from What Perspective Will Legal Certainty Be Analyzed?) -- 4 Plan (or How Will the Analysis of Legal Certainty Be Structured?)

Front -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The New Battleground for Risk Taking :The Service Economy -- 3 Facing Social Uncertainty: Towards a New Social Policy in the Service Economy -- 4 Producing the Wealth of Nations -- the Risk Takers and the Supply­Side of the Economy. The Dynamics of Disequilibrium -- 5 At The Roots of Uncertainty

"Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality- moral acting, feeling, and thinking-that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates. The notion of moral certainty, which is inspired by the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is emerging as a key reference point in contemporary moral philosophy. An investigation of the implications of moral certainty is called for, given that so many discussions in moral philosophy concern the possibility of justifying our moral beliefs. The concept of moral certainty also feeds directly into the emerging field of hinge epistemolo,gy. The chapters in this volume tackle the following issues: meta-questions around whether and how we can make sense of the concept of moral certainty; the role of moral certainty in contemporary debates on gender, racism, bias and historically unjust practices; ways in which radical change in society engendered by new technologies might affect moral certainties; the role of the notion of moral certainty in the debates on free will and moral responsibility. Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty will appeal to researchers and advanced students working on ethics and moral philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of technology, and Wittgenstein"--

Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author's life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope.