Making Comparisons Count

by Ruth Chang

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815337829
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/26/2001
Series:	Studies in Ethics
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Incomparability and Comparisons; Chapter 2 The Normativity of Comparisons; Chapter 3 Is there Incomparability?; Chapter 4 Against Constitutive Incomparability; Chapter 5 The Possibility of Parity; Chapter 6 Vagueness, Incomparability, and Parity;