Description: Further DetailsTitle: Uncertain ValuesCondition: NewSubtitle: An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological UncertaintyISBN-10: 3111271129EAN: 9783111271125ISBN: 9783111271125Publisher: De GruyterFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/08/2023Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 412gAuthor: Stefan RiedenerGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Ideen & ArgumenteRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Uncertain Values
Title: Uncertain Values
Subtitle: An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty
ISBN-10: 3111271129
EAN: 9783111271125
ISBN: 9783111271125
Release Date: 05/08/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 230mm
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Name: Uncertain Values : an Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty
Language: English
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Movements / Utilitarianism
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Stefan Riedener
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Ideen and Argumente Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
