The structure of values and norms / / Sven Ove Hansson [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780063103321
• Autore: Hansson Sven Ove <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-107-12176-0; 0-511-01326-4; 1-280-43014-1; 0-511-17426-8; 0-511-15402-X; 0-511-30227-4; 0-511-49846-2; 0-511-04696-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in probability, induction and decision theory
• Disciplina: 121/.8
• Soggetti: Values; Norm (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-301) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Values. ; 2. Exclusionary Preferences. ; 3. Preference States. ; 4. Changes in Exclusionary Preferences. ; 5. Constructing Combinative Preferences. ; 6. Pairwise Combinative Preferences. ; 7. Decision-Guiding Combinative Preferences. ; 8. Monadic Value Predicates -- ; pt. II. Norms. ; 9. A Starting Point for Deontic Logic. ; 10. Situationist Deontic Logic. ; 11. Conflicts and Counterfactuals. ; 12. Rules and Normative Systems. ; 13. Legal Relations. ; 14. Afterthought.
• Sommario/riassunto: Formal representations of values and norms are employed in several academic disciplines and specialties, such as economics, jurisprudence, decision theory and social choice theory. Sven Ove Hansson closely examines such foundational issues as the values of wholes and the values of their parts, the connections between values and norms, how values can be decision-guiding and the structure of normative codes with formal precision. Models of change in both preferences and norms ; are offered, as well as a method to base the logic of norms on that of preferences. Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic properties. This formalized treatment, carried out in terms of both informal value theory and precise logical detail, will contribute to the clarification of certain issues in the basic philosophical theory of values and norms.