Incommensurability and commensuration : the common denominator / Fred D'Agostino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Agostino, Fred.

Series:

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparison (Philosophy).

Practical reason.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

I Orientation and Motivation 1

2. Incommensurability: An Introductory Sketch 6

3. Incommensurability and Commensuration 13

4. Incommensurability and the Bush/Gore Election Crisis 17

5. Prospectus 19

II Some Questions about Incommensurability 25

6. An Historical and Conceptual Overview 27

7. Regret and the Locus of Incommensurability 30

8. Incommensurability and the "Single Scale" 35

9. Trade Offs and Historicity 39

10. Three Kinds of Incommensurability 42

11. Incommensurability: How Many Orders? 44

12. Metaphysics or Morals of Incommensurability 48

III The Pragmatics of Commensuration 57

13. The Original Position and Rawls's Functional Approach 59

14. The Circumstances of Commensuration 64

15. The Conditions for Commensuration 65

16. The Constraints on Commensuration 70

IV The Ethics of Commensuration 81

17. Standards for Commensuration 83

18. Commensuration via Reduction 91

19. Commensuration via Separation 104

V The Metaphysics of Commensuration 123

20. Commensuration and Relativism 125

21. Commensuration and "Collectivism" 132

VI The Analytics of Commensuration 145

22. An Analysis of Analytics 147

23. The Constitution of Commensurators 156

24. The Rhetorics and Sociology of Commensuration 163

VII The Dialectics of Commensuration 175

25. The Interface 177

26. Assessing Commensuration 185

27. Philosophy: The Practical Turn 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-208) and index.

ISBN:

0754631494

OCLC:

49518939