{"product_id":"on-risk-9781771963923","title":"On Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically safe. But risk was, and always has been, a fact of life. With new focus on the risks of even leaving the safety of our homes, it's time for a deeper consideration of risk itself. How do we manage and distribute risks? How do we predict uncertain outcomes? If risk can never be completely eliminated, can it perhaps be controlled? At the heart of these questions--which govern everything from waking up each day to the abstract mathematics of actuarial science--lie philosophical issues of life, death, and danger. Mortality is the event-horizon of daily risk. How should we conceive of it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Kingwell\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a contributing editor of \u003cem\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. His most recent works are \u003cem\u003eSingular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), \u003cem\u003eThe Ethics of Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), \u003cem\u003eOn Risk\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and \u003cem\u003eWish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), which won the Erving Goffman Prize in media ecology. His columns and essays appear in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, Globe and Mail, Maclean's\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada, Gray's Sporting Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50440007647506,"sku":"9781771963923","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c77191c-2882-45c0-8ee9-5064aaf42f0b.jpg?v=1729656904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-risk-9781771963923","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}