Value Incommensurability

Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making

AvHenrik Andersson,Anders Herlitz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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 Wlodek Rabinowicz.The book covers four aspects relating to incommensurability. In the first part, the contributors synthesize research on the competing views of how to best explain incommensurability. Part II illustrates how incommensurability can help us deal with seemingly insurmountable problems in ethical theory and population ethics. The contributors address the Repugnant Conclusion, the Mere Addition Paradox and so-called Spectrum Arguments. The chapters in Part III outline and summarize problems caused by incommensurability for decision theory. Finally, Part IV tackles topics related to risk, uncertainty and incommensurability.Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethical theory, decision theory, action theory, and philosophy of economics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367702182

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Henrik Andersson is a postdoc at Lund University. His research has had a focus on value theory and especially the phenomenon of value incommensurability. In his current research project, he applies recent results from value theory in order to address the hard choices we face when we aim to combat climate change.Anders Herlitz is a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. His research focuses on comparability problems and rational choice, especially in relation to distributive theory. He is currently working on a monograph addressing how to distribute scarce health resources.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Henrik Andersson and Anders HerlitzPart I: Accounts of Incommensurability1. Incommensurability is Vagueness John Broome2. Are Hard Cases Vague Cases? Ruth Chang3. Parity without Imprecise EqualityChrisoula AndreouPart II: Incommensurability and Ethical Theory4. On "Incommensurability,"Discontinuity," and the Repugnant Conclusion: "Imprecise Equality" or Vagueness? Mozaffar Qizilbash5. Spectrum Arguments, Indeterminacy, and Value Superiority Henrik Andersson6. Incommensurability and Vagueness in Population Axiology Gustaf ArrheniusPart III: Incommensurability and Decision Theory7. Nondeterminacy and Reasonable Choice Anders Herlitz8. Cross-Categorical Value Comparisons Krister Bykvist9. What Does Incommensurability Tell Us about Agency? Luke ElsonPart IV: Incommensurability, Risk and Uncertainty10. Incommensurability Meets Risk Wlodek Rabinowicz11. Incommensurability That Can(not) Be ignored Katie Steele12. Hard Choices Made Harder Ryan Doody