Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason

Name: Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
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ISBN: 9780674447561

ISBN-10: 0674447565

ISBN-13: 9780674447561

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ruth Chang, Ruth Chang

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In this book Chang examines questions which some of the sharpest minds in philosophy are struggling with. For example, she questions whether different values can be rationally weighed against one another.

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/5/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.



Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reasoning: An Introduction



Incommensurability: What's the Problem



Incommensurability: Four Proposals



Is Incommensurability Vagueness?



Practical Reason and Incommensurable Goods



Incommensurability and Agency



Comparability, Value, and Choice



Incommensurability and Practical Reasoning



Comparing the Incomparable: Tradeoffs and Sacrifices



Abstract and Concrete Value: Plurality, Conflict, and Maximization



Leading a Life



Commensuration and Public Reason



Incommensurability and Kinds of Valuation: Some Applications in Law