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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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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Product details
ISBN
9781138980211
Published
2015-11-24
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
322 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
214
Author
Biographical note
Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.