The structure of values and norms / Sven Ove Hansson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.

Cambridge studies in probability, induction and decision theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values.

Norm (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Structure of Values & Norms

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Formal representations of values and norms are employed in several academic disciplines and specialties, such as economics, jurisprudence, decision theory and social choice theory. Sven Ove Hansson closely examines such foundational issues as the values of wholes and the values of their parts, the connections between values and norms, how values can be decision-guiding and the structure of normative codes with formal precision. Models of change in both preferences and norms are offered, as well as a method to base the logic of norms on that of preferences. Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic properties. This formalized treatment, carried out in terms of both informal value theory and precise logical detail, will contribute to the clarification of certain issues in the basic philosophical theory of values and norms.

Contents:

pt. I. Values. 2. Exclusionary Preferences. 3. Preference States. 4. Changes in Exclusionary Preferences. 5. Constructing Combinative Preferences. 6. Pairwise Combinative Preferences. 7. Decision-Guiding Combinative Preferences. 8. Monadic Value Predicates

pt. II. Norms. 9. A Starting Point for Deontic Logic. 10. Situationist Deontic Logic. 11. Conflicts and Counterfactuals. 12. Rules and Normative Systems. 13. Legal Relations. 14. Afterthought.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-301) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-12176-0

0-511-01326-4

1-280-43014-1

0-511-17426-8

0-511-15402-X

0-511-30227-4

0-511-49846-2

0-511-04696-0

OCLC:

437073127