Relacje Wartości
Value Relations
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Summary, in English
The paper provides a general account of value relations. It takes its departure in a special type of value relation, parity, which, according to Ruth Chang, is a form of evaluative comparability that differs from the three standard forms of comparability: betterness, worseness and equal goodness. Recently, Joshua Gert has suggested that the notion of parity can be accounted for, if value comparisons are interpreted as normative assessments of preference. While Gert’s basic idea is attractive, the way he develops it is flawed: His modeling of values by intervals of permissible preference strengths is inadequate. Instead, I provide an alternative modeling in terms of intersections of rationally permissible preference orderings. This yields a general taxonomy of all binary value relations. The paper concludes with some implications of this approach for rational choice.
Department/s
Publishing year
2009
Language
Polish
Pages
85-120
Publication/Series
Etyka
Volume
42
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper
Topic
- Philosophy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0014-2263