Martijn Boot

Incommensurability and its Implications for Practical Reasoning, Ethics and Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

This highly original book sheds new light on aspects of incommensurability of values and its implications for ethics and justice. It provides original and innovative analysis of the characteristics of incommensurability in relation to values, and explores the implications of incommensurability for ethics, justice and public decision-making.

Produktdetails

• Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781786602275
• ISBN-10: 178660227X
• Artikelnr.: 47439942

Autorenporträt

Martijn Boot is an Assistant Professor at University College Groningen, the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Incommensurability and Its Implications for Practical Reasoning
1. Incommensurability and Incomplete Comparability
2. Spurious Challenges
3. Real Challenges: Imprecise Equality and Parity versus Incomplete Comparability
4. Implications of Incomplete Comparability for Practical Reasoning and Rational Justification of the Choice
Part II: Implications of Imcommensurability for Public Decision-Making, Ethics and Justice
5. Conflicts of Justice
6. Rival Theories of Justice
7. Implications of Incommensurability for John Rawls's Theory of Justice
8. Do We Need a Theory of Justice? A Reply to Amartya Sen
9. Equity and Efficiency in Health Care
10. Legitimacy versus Integrity
11. Partial Justice
12. Autonomy and Recognition
Glossary