Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
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.
Series:
Values and identities: crossing philosophical borders
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