Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing

question 96

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Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Davis presents the standard theory of whistleblowing and what constitutes circumstances in which whistleblowing is morally required of an employee. Three paradoxes follow from the standard theory (of burden, of missing harm, of failure) , to which Davis responds with a complicity theory that avoids all of them. He uses the example of the Challenger in demonstrating a test of the latter.
-According to Davis, the testimony given by Boisjoly before the Rogers Commission in the Challenger example passes the test of the ___________ theory.

• A) whistleblower
• B) complicity
• C) standard
• D) epistemic justification

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