Value Incommensurability : Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making (Edition 1)

• Main Author: Henrik Andersson, Anders Herlitz / Henrik Andersson, Anders Herlitz
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2022; Lund University; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Subjects: Anders Herlitz; basic contraction consistency; Book Industry Communication; Chrisoula Andreou; comparative relations; Decision making; decision theory; dynamic choice; Economic Theory & Philosophy; Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics and moral philosophy; Ethics Philosophy; Ethics. Systems and doctrines; Etik; Filosofi; Filosofi, etik och religion; Gustaf Arrhenius; Henrik Andersson; Humaniora och konst; Humanities; imprecise equality; incommensurability; John Broome; Krister Bykvist; Luke Elson; mere addition paradox; Mozaffar Qizilbash; parity; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy, Ethics and Religion; Political Philosophy; population ethics; reasonable choice; repugnant conclusion; Risk; Ruth Chang; spectrum arguments; thema EDItEUR; Topics in philosophy; uncertainty; vagueness; Value; value aggregation; value imprecision; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Anders Herlitz; Henrik Andersson; decision theory; parity; Status Quo Option; Arbitrary Stipulation; Hard Cases; Gustaf Arrhenius; Vice Versa; uncertainty; Normative Costs; Geoengineering Option; Incommensurate Options; Impossibility Results; Roughly Equally; Krister Bykvist; reasonable choice; Violating; incommensurability; value imprecision; Mere Addition Paradox; Population Ethics; John Broome; Wlodek Rabinowicz; imprecise equality; Opaque Boxes; Cyclical Ranking; basic contraction consistency; comparative relations; State S1; repugnant conclusion; vagueness; Mozaffar Qizilbash; Equally Good; Ordinal Distance; Luke Elson; Money Pump Argument; Ruth Chang; Non-dominance Principle; Normative Leakage; Parfit’s View; Adjacent Experiences; risk; value aggregation; Spectrum Arguments; Chrisoula Andreou; dynamic choice
• ISBN: 9781000526981; 1000526984; 9780367707873; 036770787X; 9780367702182; 0367702185; 9781003148012; 1003148018; 9781000527001; 100052700X
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003148012

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.