Incommensurability and its implications for practical reasoning, ethics and justice. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martijn Boot.
• Authors: Boot, Martijn, 1974-
• Contents: Incommensurability and its implications for practical reasoning -- Incommensurability and incomplete comparability -- Spurious challenges -- Real challenges: imprecise equality and parity versus incomplete comparability -- Implications of incomplete comparability for practical reasoning and rational justification of the choice -- Implications of incommensurability for public decision-making, ethics, and justice -- Conflicts of justice -- Rival theories of justice -- Implications of incommensurability for John Rawls's theory of justice -- Do we need a theory of justice? A reply to Amartya Sen -- Equity and efficiency in health care -- Legitimacy versus integrity -- Partial justice -- Autonomy and recognition.
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
• Subjects: 170/.42; Business & Economics: Economics / Theory; Comparison (Philosophy); Practical reason; Ethics; Justice; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Social; Political Science: Public Policy / Economic Policy; Philosophy: Political; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786602299; 1786602296
• Related ISBNs: 9781786602275
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 8, 2018)
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