Structure of Values and Norms

Informationen zum Autor Sven Ove Hansson is Professor of the Philosophy of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)! Stockholm! Sweden. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. His many publications include The Ethics of Risk (2013)! Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (2013! co-edited with Deborah Oughton)! Norms in Technology (2013! co-edited with Marc J. de Vries and Anthonie W.M. Meijers)! David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems (2014)! and The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives (forthcoming). Klappentext A unified formal representation of values and norms reflecting both their static and their dynamic properties. Zusammenfassung Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic properties. This formalized treatment! carried out in terms of both informal value theory and precise logical detail! will contribute to the clarification of certain issues in the basic philosophical theory of values and norms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prolegomena: 1. Formalization; Part I. Values: 2. Exclusionary preferences; 3. Preference states; 4. Changes in exclusionary preferences; 5. Constructing combinative preferences; 6. Pairwise combinative preferences; 7. Decision-guiding combinative preferences; 8. Monadic value predicates; Part II. Norms: 9. A starting point for deontic logic; 10. Situationist deontic logic; 11. Conflicts and counterfactuals; 12. Rules and normative systems; 13. Legal relations; Epilogue: 14. Afterthought; Proofs; References; Index of symbols; General index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sven Ove Hansson
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 02.07.2001
• EAN: 9780521792042
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79204-2
• Pages: 330
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Probabili
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires