Security: A Philosophical Investigation Welch David A.
Security: A Philosophical Investigation Welch David A. How do we know when we are investing wisely in security? Is it possible to protect them? Answering this question requires investigating what…
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Security: A Philosophical Investigation Welch David A.
How do we know when we are investing wisely in security? Is it possible to protect them? Answering this question requires investigating what things are worth securing (and why); what threatens them; how best to protect them; and how to think about it.
What trade-offs are involved in allocating resources to security problems? How best go about protecting them? This book responds to these questions by stripping down our preconceptions and rebuilding an understanding of security from the ground up on the basis of a common-sense ontology and an explicit theory of value.
It argues for a clear distinction between objective and subjective security threats, a non-anthropocentric understanding of security, and a particular hierarchy of security referents, looking closely at four in particular-the ecosphere, the state, culture, and individual human beings. The analysis will be of interest not