1st Edition

Making Comparisons Count

By Ruth Chang Copyright 2002
    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Ruth Chang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.