The Structure of Values and Norms

Sven Ove Hansson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-03723-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Preface; Prolegomena: 1. Formalization; Part 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; Part 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; Epilogue: 14. Afterthought; Proofs; References; Index of symbols; General index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2007
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-521-03723-9 / 0521037239
ISBN-13	978-0-521-03723-5 / 9780521037235
Zustand	Neuware