Making Comparisons Count

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.

About the author

Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Summary

This is the first book length treatment of incomparability, value and practical reason, arguing that alternatives for choice, no matter how different, are never incomparable and that comparisons can be more various than is thought.

Product details

• Authors: Chang Ruth, Ruth Chang
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.12.2001
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780815337829
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3782-9
• Pages: 214
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 560 g
• Series: Studies in Ethics
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Rational choice theory, Decision Theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Normative Ethics, practical reasoning, parity in choices, philosophical analysis of incomparability, value comparison