Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason¶
Chang, R. (1997). Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason. Harvard University Press.
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- Commensurability
- It transforms a situation where dimensions cannot be directly compared (apples and oranges, lives and dollars, justice and efficiency) into one where trade-offs become quantifiable and aggregation becomes possible, a transformation Chang (1997) analyzes as the central question of practical reason across incommensurable goods.
This sourceFoundational philosophical anthology distinguishing incommensurability (no common cardinal scale) from incomparability and developing the practical-reasoning frameworks needed when no shared metric pre-exists; supports the structural-signature claim that this is the central question of practical reason across incommensurable goods.
- It transforms a situation where dimensions cannot be directly compared (apples and oranges, lives and dollars, justice and efficiency) into one where trade-offs become quantifiable and aggregation becomes possible, a transformation Chang (1997) analyzes as the central question of practical reason across incommensurable goods.
- Value Commensuration
- It separates stakeholders who hold genuinely different value frameworks (environmental vs. economic, individual vs. collective, present vs. future) and names the work required to impose a common language despite that difference, a structure Chang (1997) examines in her treatment of incommensurability, incomparability, and the practical reasoning required when no common metric pre-exists.
This sourceFoundational philosophical anthology distinguishing incommensurability (no common cardinal scale) from incomparability and developing the practical-reasoning frameworks needed when no shared metric pre-exists.
- It separates stakeholders who hold genuinely different value frameworks (environmental vs. economic, individual vs. collective, present vs. future) and names the work required to impose a common language despite that difference, a structure Chang (1997) examines in her treatment of incommensurability, incomparability, and the practical reasoning required when no common metric pre-exists.
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