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Uncertain Values

An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

By: Stefan Riedener

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Uncertain Values

An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

By: Stefan Riedener

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.

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157

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110736225

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9783110736229

Adventist Interchurch Relations

A Study in Ecumenics

By: Stefan Höschele

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Adventist Interchurch Relations

A Study in Ecumenics

By: Stefan Höschele

This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of Seventhday Adventist interchurch relations – a 20-million member body whose ecumenical stance has so far been underresearched. For the sake of interpreting denominational involvement and reservations in Adventism as well as beyond, the study develops a new academic approach to ecumenism based on Relational Models Theory, a comprehensive social science paradigm of interpreting human relationships. The resulting typology of ecumenical interactions and the historical case study of Adventism suggest that such a relational interpretation of ecumenical interaction sheds light on many of the unresolved issues in ecumenics – such as divergent concepts of unity, difficulties in recognition processes, and the permanence of denominationalism.

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V&R Unipress

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3847014633

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9783847014638

Uncertain Values

An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

By: Stefan Riedener

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An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty

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3110736195

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9783110736199

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