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.

Introduction Henrik Andersson and Anders HerlitzPart I: Accounts of Incommensurability1. Incommensurability is Vagueness John Broome2. Hard Cases Are Not Vague CasesRuth Chang3. Parity without Imprecise EqualityChrisoula AndreouPart II: Incommensurability and Ethical Theory4. On ⁰́₈Incommensurability⁰́₉, ⁰́₈Discontinuity⁰́₉ and the Repugnant Conclusion: ⁰́₈Imprecise Equality⁰́₉ or Vagueness? Mozaffar Qizilbash5. Spectrum Arguments, Indeterminacy, and Value Superiority Henrik Andersson6. Incommensurability and Vagueness in Population Axiology Gustaf ArrheniusPart III: Incommensurability and Decision Theory7. Nondeterminacy and Reasonable Choice Anders Herlitz8. Cross-Categorical Value Comparisons Krister Bykvist9. What does Incommensurability Tell us about Agency? Luke ElsonPart IV: Incommensurability, Risk and Uncertainty10. Incommensurability Meets Risk Wlodek Rabinowicz11. Incommensurability that can(not) safely be ignored Katie Steele12. Hard Choices Made Harder Ryan Doody

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.