Incommensurability And Commensuration

Author : Fred Agostino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351775236

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Incommensurability and Commensuration by Fred Agostino Pdf

This title was published in 2003.This volume presents a detailed examination of incommensurability in the value-theoretical sense. Exploring how choosers deal with problems and constraints of choice, the author draws on work in cognitive psychology, in sociology, in jurisprudence, in economics, and in the theory of value to show how choosers learn to make "trade-offs" when there is potential incommensurability among the options they are considering. The analysis is also informed by recent work in the tradition of Michel Foucault. With so many modern devices and ideals of government dependent on the comparability of options, this book is timely and can inform public debate about de-regulation, user-pays, accountability, and the substitution of market mechanisms for government regulation and supply.

Author : Fred D'Agostino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1315199181

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Incommensurability and Commensuration by Fred D'Agostino Pdf

Author : Paul Hoyningen-Huene,H. Sankey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401596800

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Incommensurability and Related Matters by Paul Hoyningen-Huene,H. Sankey Pdf

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for cultural difference. While it offers new work, and new directions of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has taken place within the literature on incommensurability.

Author : Ellen Frankel Paul,Fred Dycus Miller,Jeffrey Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521534987

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After Socialism: Volume 20, Part 1 by Ellen Frankel Paul,Fred Dycus Miller,Jeffrey Paul Pdf

In this collection, twelve philosophers, historians and political philosophers assess aspects of socialism.

Author : Gerald F Gaus
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761961399

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Contemporary Theories of Liberalism by Gerald F Gaus Pdf

In this text, Gerald F. Gaus provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to present day theories and debates.

Author : Ruth Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015040169727

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Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason by Ruth Chang Pdf

Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or less than the value of something else? If the answer to these questions is no, then in what areas do we find commensurability and comparability unavailable? And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? This book struggles with these questions, and arrives at distinctly different answers."

Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444334630

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Ethics, Volume 23 by John Hawthorne Pdf

Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research. Contains original essays in the subject from foremost ethicists John Hawthorne is widely accepted as one of the leading Philosophers of today

Author : Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022206

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Multisituated by Kaushik Sunder Rajan Pdf

In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology’s myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research.

Author : Stefan Ecks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022282

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Living Worth by Stefan Ecks Pdf

In Living Worth Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antidepressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value. Framing depressive disorder as a problem of value, Ecks traces the myriad ways antidepressants come to have value, from their ability to help make one’s life worth living to the wealth they generate in the multibillion-dollar global pharmaceutical market. Through case studies that include analyses of the different valuation of generic and brand-name drugs, the origins of rising worldwide depression rates, and the marketing, prescription, and circulation of antidepressants, Ecks theorizes value as a process of biocommensuration. Biocommensurations—transactions that aim or claim to make life better—are those forms of social, medical, and corporate actions that allow value to be measured, exchanged, substituted, and redistributed. Ecks’s theory expands value beyond both a Marxist labor theory of value and a free market subjective theory, thereby offering new insights into how the value of lives and things become entangled under neoliberal capitalism.

Author : Francisco Javier Urbina Molfino,Francisco J. Urbina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107175068

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A Critique of Proportionality and Balancing by Francisco Javier Urbina Molfino,Francisco J. Urbina Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the principle of proportionality and balancing as applied to human and constitutional rights.

Author : John Finnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199580057

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Reason in Action by John Finnis Pdf

Reason in Action collects John Finnis's work on practical reason and moral philosophy. Ranging from foundational issues of meta-ethics to modern ethical debates, the essays trace the emergence and development of his new classical theory of natural law through close engagement with a broad range of contemporary thinkers and problems.

Author : Howard Sankey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000012293

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The Incommensurability Thesis by Howard Sankey Pdf

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different scientific theories may be incommensurable because of conceptual variance. The book presents a critique of the thesis and examines and discusses the arguments for the theory, acknowledging and debating the opposing views of other theorists. The book provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the incommensurability thesis.

Author : A. Walsh,T. Lynch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230227804

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The Morality of Money by A. Walsh,T. Lynch Pdf

The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life. While the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter has largely been neglected. The authors provide the first comprehensive introduction to the morality of money.

Author : Mark Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317995463

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Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism by Mark Hayward Pdf

While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse, this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live. However, rather than offering a strictly economic approach, Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism argues that the crisis was as much cultural as economic, and that any way forward must understand the complex relationship between media, culture and the economy. The chapters in this volume deal with a wide range of themes including celebrity culture, media coverage of the economy, examinations of economic theory and financial markets. They bring together research that combines an historical perspective with a view towards the future of critical cultural and political analysis. In a period marked by anxiety and economic austerity, this volume offers the reader tools for understanding the place and importance of cultural research in the post-crisis era. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies.

Author : Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822348306

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Cultural Studies in the Future Tense by Lawrence Grossberg Pdf

Lawrence Grossberg, one of the most influential figures in cultural studies, assesses the mission of cultural studies as a discipline in the past, present and future