Erspamer, Melanie (2024) The political leeway in policymaking: from Neurathian underdetermination to the precautionary principle. Teoria-rivista Di Filosofia, 44 (1). ISSN 1122-1259
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In this paper, I propose and develop the Auxiliary Principle (AP), which states that given the endemic uncertainty in policymaking, decision-makers always have political leeway in their choices, and that they should acknowledge it as such. First, I explain the ideas of Otto Neurath, whose writings on decision-making in conditions of epistemic uncertainty and his proposal of an auxiliary motive inspired my AP. Next, I explain the AP in-depth, including what its purpose is in decision-making under uncertainty, how it opens up a space for political discussion, and how it meets the political risk of false certainty. Finally, I argue that the AP can be a useful substitution for the popular Precautionary Principle at the meta-level while preserving its risk-averse intuitions. I use the controversy around the regulation of the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 to illustrate my arguments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Edizioni ETS |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine J Political Science H Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2024 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 09:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124113 |
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