Sven Ove Hansson

The Structure of Values and Norms

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Produktbeschreibung

A unified formal representation of values and norms reflecting both their static and their dynamic properties.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780521792042
• ISBN-10: 0521792045
• Artikelnr.: 29337662

Autorenporträt

Sven Ove Hansson is Professor of the Philosophy of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. His many publications include The Ethics of Risk (2013), Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (2013, co-edited with Deborah Oughton), Norms in Technology (2013, co-edited with Marc J. de Vries and Anthonie W.M. Meijers), David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems (2014), and The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prolegomena: 1. Formalization
Part I. Values: 2. Exclusionary preferences
3. Preference states
4. Changes in exclusionary preferences
5. Constructing combinative preferences
6. Pairwise combinative preferences
7. Decision-guiding combinative preferences
8. Monadic value predicates
Part II. Norms: 9. A starting point for deontic logic
10. Situationist deontic logic
11. Conflicts and counterfactuals
12. Rules and normative systems
13. Legal relations
Epilogue: 14. Afterthought
Proofs
References
Index of symbols
General index.