Incommensurability and commensuration : the common denominator /
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| Author / Creator: | D'Agostino, Fred. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003. |
| Description: | x, 211 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4887946 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I. Orientation and Motivation
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Incommensurability: An Introductory Sketch
- 3.. Incommensurability and Commensuration
- 4.. Incommensurability and the Bush/Gore Election Crisis
- 5.. Prospectus
- II. Some Questions about Incommensurability
- 6.. An Historical and Conceptual Overview
- 7.. Regret and the Locus of Incommensurability
- 8.. Incommensurability and the "Single Scale"
- 9.. Trade Offs and Historicity
- 10.. Three Kinds of Incommensurability
- 11.. Incommensurability: How Many Orders?
- 12.. Metaphysics or Morals of Incommensurability
- III. The Pragmatics of Commensuration
- 13.. The Original Position and Rawls's Functional Approach
- 14.. The Circumstances of Commensuration
- 15.. The Conditions for Commensuration
- 16.. The Constraints on Commensuration
- IV. The Ethics of Commensuration
- 17.. Standards for Commensuration
- 18.. Commensuration via Reduction
- 19.. Commensuration via Separation
- V. The Metaphysics of Commensuration
- 20.. Commensuration and Relativism
- 21.. Commensuration and "Collectivism"
- VI. The Analytics of Commensuration
- 22.. An Analysis of Analytics
- 23.. The Constitution of Commensurators
- 24.. The Rhetorics and Sociology of Commensuration
- VII. The Dialectics of Commensuration
- 25.. The Interface
- 26.. Assessing Commensuration
- 27.. Philosophy: The Practical Turn
- Bibliography
- Index