Uncertain Values

An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

Stefan Riedener (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 156 Seiten

2023
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-127112-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Stefan Riedener, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ideen & Argumente
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w ill., 9 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	412 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Erwartungswert • expected value • intertheoretic comparisons • intertheoretische Vergleiche • Normative uncertainty • normative Unsicherheit • Repräsentationstheoreme • Representation Theorems
ISBN-10	3-11-127112-9 / 3111271129
ISBN-13	978-3-11-127112-5 / 9783111271125
Zustand	Neuware