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Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

English · Paperback / Softback

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How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)-the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and value facts, and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what it is for such facts to hold. Also, EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to defend that it's true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which, and mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of standard decision theory, and original take on the problem of axiological or normative uncertainty.

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Stefan Riedener, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Product details

Authors Stefan Riedener
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.05.2023
 
EAN 9783111271125
ISBN 978-3-11-127112-5
No. of pages 156
Dimensions 155 mm x 10 mm x 230 mm
Weight 260 g
Illustrations 1 b/w ill., 9 b/w tbl.
Series Ideen & Argumente
ISSN
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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