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Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,518
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Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover): Stefan Riedener

Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover)

Stefan Riedener

Series: Ideen & Argumente

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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.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Ideen & Argumente
Release date: October 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Stefan Riedener
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-073957-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
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LSN: 3-11-073957-7
Barcode: 9783110739572

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