Sources of transitivity

IF 1.2 2区哲学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Economics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI:10.1017/S0266267122000074

Daniel Muñoz

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract Why should ‘better than’ be transitive? The leading answer in ethics is that values do not change with context. But this cannot be the entire source of transitivity, I argue, since transitivity can fail even if values never change, so long as they are complex, with multiple dimensions combined non-additively. I conclude by exploring a new hypothesis: that all alleged cases of nontransitive betterness, such as Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion, can and should be modelled as the result of complexity, not context-relativity.

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为什么“better than”应该是传递物?伦理学的主要答案是价值观不会随着环境而改变。但我认为，这不可能是传递性的全部来源，因为传递性可能失效，即使值从未改变，只要它们是复杂的，多个维度的组合是不可加性的。最后，我探索了一个新的假设:所有所谓的非传递性更好的情况，比如帕菲特的“令人反感的结论”，都可以而且应该作为复杂性的结果来建模，而不是上下文相对性。

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Economics and Philosophy Multiple-

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1.80

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The disciplines of economics and philosophy each possess their own special analytical methods, whose combination is powerful and fruitful. Each discipline can be enriched by the other. Economics and Philosophy aims to promote their mutual enrichment by publishing articles and book reviews in all areas linking these subjects. Topics include the methodology and epistemology of economics, the foundations of decision theory and game theory, the nature of rational choice in general, historical work on economics with a philosophical purpose, ethical issues in economics, the use of economic techniques in ethical theory, and many other subjects.