Incommensurability, incomparability, and practical reason

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Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard (1997)
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Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or less than the value of something else? If the answer to these questions is no, then in what areas do we find commensurability and comparability unavailable? And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? This book struggles with these questions, and arrives at distinctly different answers."

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BD236.I53 1997

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0674447557   0674447565

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10.1023/a:1011465923021
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Is Incommensurability Vagueness?John Broome
Value, Comparability, and Choice.Donald Regan
Introduction.  (pages 1-34)Ruth Chang
Incommensurability: what's the problem.  (pages 42)James Griffin
Comparing the incomparable: trade-offs and sacrifices.  (pages 184--195)Steven Lukes

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