Making comparisons count

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    • Chang, Ruth

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Making comparisons count

Ruth Chang

(Studies in ethics : outstanding dissertations)(A Routledge series)

Routledge, 2002

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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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