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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This is the first book length treatment of incomparability, value and practical reason, arguing that alternatives for choice, no matter how different, are never incomparable and that comparisons can be more various than is thought.
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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;
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ISBN
9780815337829
Publisert
2001-12-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
214

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Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.