Value incommensurability : ethics, risk. and decision-making / edited by Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Accounts of Incommensurability -- Chapter 1: Incommensurateness Is Vagueness -- Chapter 2: Are Hard Cases Vague Cases? -- Chapter 3: Parity Without Imprecise Equality -- Part II: Incommensurability and Ethical Theory -- Chapter 4: On “Incommensurability,” “Discontinuity,” and the Repugnant Conclusion: “Imprecise Equality” or Vagueness? -- Chapter 5: Spectrum Arguments, Indeterminacy, and Value Superiority -- Chapter 6: Incommensurability and Vagueness in Population Axiology -- Part III: Incommensurability and Decision Theory -- Chapter 7: Nondeterminacy and Reasonable Choice -- Chapter 8: Cross-Categorical Value Comparisons -- Chapter 9: What Does Incommensurability Tell Us About Agency? -- Part IV: Incommensurability, Risk, and Uncertainty -- Chapter 10: Incommensurability Meets Risk -- Chapter 11: Incommensurability That Can(not) Be Ignored -- Chapter 12: Hard Choices Made Harder

"Incommensurability is the impossibility to determine how two options relate to each other in terms of conventional comparative relations. This book features new research on incommensurability from philosophers who have shaped the field into what it is today, including John Broome, Ruth Chang and Wlodek Rabinowicz. The book covers four aspects relating to incommensurability. In the first part, the contributors synthesize research on the competing views of how to best explain incommensurability. Part II illustrates how incommensurability can help us deal with seemingly insurmountable problems in ethical theory and population ethics. The contributors address the Repugnant Conclusion, the Mere Addition Paradox and so-called Spectrum Arguments. The chapters in Part III outline and summarize problems caused by incommensurability for decision theory. Finally, Part IV tackles topics related to risk, uncertainty and incommensurability. Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethical theory, decision theory, action theory, and philosophy of economics"-- Provided by publisher.