In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and
talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the …

The Eleatic philosophers argued that it was impossible for anything to change, since that
would require something to differ from itself. Although this line of reasoning is unpersuasive …

Values, such as liberty and equality, are sometimes said to be incommensurable in the
sense that their value cannot be reduced to a common measure. And options, such as …

Two options are “incommensurate” when neither is better than the other, but they are not
equally good. Typically, we will say that one option is better in some ways, and the other in …

The small‐improvement argument is usually considered the most powerful argument against
comparability, viz the view that for any two alternatives an agent is rationally required either …

Recent developments in theories for responsible innovation have focused on the importance
of actively accounting for values in our technological designs. Leading among these …

How should one understand comparisons in which neither of two alternatives is at least as
good as the other? Much recent literature on comparability problems focuses on what the …

This article analyzes approaches to nondeterminacy (eg, incommensurability,
indeterminacy, parity) that suggest that one can make justified choices when primary criteria …

This paper presents an approach to how to make reasonable social choices when
independent criteria (eg prioritarianism, religious freedom) fail to fully determine what to do …

I argue that the Ruth Chang's Chaining Argument for her parity view of value incomparability
trades illicitly on the vagueness of the predicate 'is comparable with'. Chang is alert to this …