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.
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.
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
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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