Incommensurability and Its Implications for Practical Reasoning, - Ethics and Justic

This highly original book sheds new light on aspects of incommensurability of values and its implications for ethics and justice. It provides original and innovative analysis of the characteristics of incommensurability in relation to values, and explores the implications of incommensurability for ethics, justice and public decision-making.

List of contents

Introduction / Part I: Incommensurability and Its Implications for Practical Reasoning / 1. Incommensurability and Incomplete Comparability / 2. Spurious Challenges / 3. Real Challenges: Imprecise Equality and Parity versus Incomplete Comparability / 4. Implications of Incomplete Comparability for Practical Reasoning and Rational Justification of the Choice / Part II: Implications of Imcommensurability for Public Decision-Making, Ethics and Justice / 5. Conflicts of Justice / 6. Rival Theories of Justice / 7. Implications of Incommensurability for John Rawls's Theory of Justice / 8. Do We Need a Theory of Justice? A Reply to Amartya Sen / 9. Equity and Efficiency in Health Care / 10. Legitimacy versus Integrity / 11. Partial Justice / 12. Autonomy and Recognition / Glossary

About the author

Martijn Boot is an Assistant Professor at University College Groningen, the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Martijn Boot
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781786602282
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-228-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders; Values and Identities: Crossin; Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Social & political philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Economic theory and philosophy