Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)

By: Anders Herlitz

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 288 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000527001
Related ISBNs:: 9780367707873, 9780367702182, 9781003148012
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/14/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Henrik Andersson
Edited by:: Anders Herlitz