John Nolt

Incomparable Values

Analysis, Axiomatics and Applications

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780367563684
• ISBN-10: 0367563681
• Artikelnr.: 62570471

Autorenporträt

John Nolt is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and a Research Fellow at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy. He has published seven books, including Environmental Ethics for the Long Term (Routledge, 2015), and numerous articles on logic and environmental, intergenerational, and climate ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preliminaries
1. Incomparability, Axiologies, Axiomatics, and Model Theory
2. Logic, Comparison, Hasse Diagrams, and Set Theory
Part II. Basic Formal Axiology
3. Arithmetical Value Structures
4. Cartesian Models
5. Integer Multiplication, Delimitation, and Commensurability
6. Incomparability Obscured
7. Aggregating Welfare over Populations
8. Evaluating and Comparing Situations
Part III. Ethical Decision Theory
9. The Deontic Logic of Decision
10. Rational Ethical Decisions
Part IV. Bounds
11. Absolute Value and Concept Generalization
12. Bounds of Finite Value Sets
13. Value Analysis
14. Incomparability and Infinity

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Part I. Preliminaries

1. Incomparability, Axiologies, Axiomatics, and Model Theory

2. Logic, Comparison, Hasse Diagrams, and Set Theory

Part II. Basic Formal Axiology

3. Arithmetical Value Structures

4. Cartesian Models

5. Integer Multiplication, Delimitation, and Commensurability

6. Incomparability Obscured

7. Aggregating Welfare over Populations

8. Evaluating and Comparing Situations

Part III. Ethical Decision Theory

9. The Deontic Logic of Decision

10. Rational Ethical Decisions

Part IV. Bounds

11. Absolute Value and Concept Generalization

12. Bounds of Finite Value Sets

13. Value Analysis

14. Incomparability and Infinity

Rezensionen

"This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature. Its combination of formal rigour and thoroughness with philosophical acumen is rare. This type of work is very much needed in axiology and ethics. The discussion of incomparable values in the book is by far the most detailed and precise to date. In addition, the book contains much material that should be of interest to axiologists, ethicists and decision theorists quite independently of its connections to value incomparability." - Erik Carlson, Uppsala University, Sweden

"This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature. Its combination of formal rigour and thoroughness with philosophical acumen is rare. This type of work is very much needed in axiology and ethics. The discussion of incomparable values in the book is by far the most detailed and precise to date. In addition, the book contains much material that should be of interest to axiologists, ethicists and decision theorists quite independently of its connections to value incomparability." - Erik Carlson, Uppsala University, Sweden