Incomparable Values

John Nolt is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and a Research Fellow at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy. He has published seven books, including Environmental Ethics for the Long Term (Routledge, 2015), and numerous articles on logic and environmental, intergenerational, and climate ethics.

• Part I. Preliminaries 1. Incomparability, Axiologies, Axiomatics, and Model Theory2. Logic, Comparison, Hasse Diagrams, and Set TheoryPart II. Basic Formal Axiology 3. Arithmetical Value Structures4. Cartesian Models5. Integer Multiplication, Delimitation, and Commensurability6. Incomparability Obscured7. Aggregating Welfare over Populations8. Evaluating and Comparing SituationsPart III. Ethical Decision Theory 9. The Deontic Logic of Decision10. Rational Ethical DecisionsPart IV. Bounds11. Absolute Value and Concept Generalization12. Bounds of Finite Value Sets13. Value Analysis 14. Incomparability and Infinity

"This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature. Its combination of formal rigour and thoroughness with philosophical acumen is rare. This type of work is very much needed in axiology and ethics. The discussion of incomparable values in the book is by far the most detailed and precise to date. In addition, the book contains much material that should be of interest to axiologists, ethicists and decision theorists quite independently of its connections to value incomparability." – Erik Carlson, Uppsala University, Sweden