Making Comparisons Count.
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| Author / Creator: | Chang, Ruth. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Ethics Studies in ethics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304024 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the Routledge Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Incomparability: The Basic Notion; 1.1. The covering value requirement; 1.2. Covering values and contributory values; 1.3. The covering value requirement and incomparability; 2. The Structure of Values and Comparisons of Bearers; 2.1. The structure of values; 2.2. Comparisons of bearers; 2.3. Two conclusions; 3. Numerical Representation: The Standard Model; 3.1. The Standard Model and the Trichotomy Thesis; 3.2. Mere ordinality.
- 3.3. Precise cardinality3.4. Imprecise cardinality; 1. What Justifies Choice?; 2. Setting the Stage for Comparativism; 3. Optimizing; 4. Alternatives to Optimizing; 4.1. Satisficing; 4.2. Maximalizing; 4.3. Absolutizing; 5. Comparisons and Justifying Force; 6. A Challenge to Comparativism: Brute Desires; 1. The Diversity of Values; 2. Bidirectionality; 3. Calculation; 4. Rational Irresolvability of Conflict; 5. The Incomparability of Values; 5.1. Value incomparability; 5.2. Bearer incomparability; 6. The Lack of a Common Value; 6.1. Noncomparability.
- 6.2. Formal failures of comparison and practical reason1. Constitutive Incomparability; 2. Mere Market Goods; 3. Raz; 3.1. Symbolic significance; 3.2. The belief in incomparability; 3.3. The incomparability of friendship and money; 4. Critique; 4.1. The belief in incomparability; 4.2. The argument by elimination; 5. Anderson; 5.1. Comparisons as boring; 5.2. Comparisons as stultifying; 5.3. Comparisons as incoherent; 6. Emphatic Comparisons: A Sketch; 1. The Small Improvement Argument: Particular Version; 1.1. Rational attitudes; 1.2. Rational judgments.
- 1.3. Skepticism about particular judgments2. The Small Improvement Argument: Abstract Version; 3. Against Incomparability: The Pareto Argument; 3.1. The Pareto Argument; 3.2. Examples; 4. The Small Improvement and Pareto Arguments Revisited: Is Parity Vagueness?; 4.1. Why hard cases are not borderline cases; 4.2. Objections; 5. Parity; 5.1. The intuitive notion: evaluative differences revisited; 5.2. A metaphysical underpinning of parity; 5.3. A nonstandard model of comparability; 1. Incomparability as Vagueness; 2. Determinate and Indeterminate Failure Revisited.
- 2.1. Artificial and natural comparatives2.2. The Collapsing Principle Argument; 3. Multiple Rankings and Parity; 3.1. Essentially normative predicates; 3.2. Resolving parity into choice: a suggestion; Bibliography; Index.