Ruth Chang

Making Comparisons Count (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135714703
• Artikelnr.: 40436603

Autorenporträt

Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Incomparability and Comparisons
Chapter 2 The Normativity of Comparisons
Chapter 3 Is there Incomparability?
Chapter 4 Against Constitutive Incomparability
Chapter 5 The Possibility of Parity
Chapter 6 Vagueness, Incomparability, and Parity