Value Incommensurability ethics, risk. and decision-making

Incommensurability is the impossibility to determine how two options relate to each other in terms of conventional comparative relations. This book features new research on incommensurability from philosophers who have shaped the field into what it is today, including John Broome, Ruth Chang and Wlo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Herlitz, Anders, editor (editor), Andersson, Henrik, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Taylor & Francis 2022.
Colección:Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz
  • Part I: Accounts of Incommensurability
  • 1. Incommensurability is Vagueness John Broome
  • 2. Are Hard Cases Vague Cases? Ruth Chang
  • 3. Parity without Imprecise EqualityChrisoula Andreou
  • Part II: Incommensurability and Ethical Theory
  • 4. On "Incommensurability,"Discontinuity," and the Repugnant Conclusion: "Imprecise Equality" or Vagueness? Mozaffar Qizilbash
  • 5. Spectrum Arguments, Indeterminacy, and Value Superiority Henrik Andersson
  • 6. Incommensurability and Vagueness in Population Axiology Gustaf Arrhenius
  • Part III: Incommensurability and Decision Theory
  • 7. Nondeterminacy and Reasonable Choice Anders Herlitz
  • 8. Cross-Categorical Value Comparisons Krister Bykvist
  • 9. What Does Incommensurability Tell Us about Agency? Luke Elson
  • Part IV: Incommensurability, Risk and Uncertainty
  • 10. Incommensurability Meets Risk Wlodek Rabinowicz
  • 11. Incommensurability That Can(not) Be ignored Katie Steele
  • 12. Hard Choices Made Harder Ryan Doody.