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IDEEN & ARGUMENTE UNCERTAIN VALUES - STEFAN R...

How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable?
A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)-the view that under axiological
uncertainty  an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value
across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and
value facts  and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what
it is for such facts to hold. Also  EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to
defend that it's true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It
provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic
comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which  and
mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides
a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through
simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of
standard decision theory  and original take on the problem of axiological or normative
uncertainty.

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