Incomparable Values
Incomparable Values

Author: John Nolt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1000515265

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People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, John Nolt examines the great variety of partially ordered value structures, exposing fallacies that arise from overlooking them. He reveals various ways in which incomparability is obscured: using linear indices to summarize partially ordered data, relying on an inadequately defined concept of parity, or conflating incomparability with vagueness. Incomparability can enrich and clarify a range of topics including the paradoxes of Derek Parfit, rational decision theory, and the infinite values of theology. Finally, Nolt shows how to generalize many of the concepts introduced earlier, explores the intricate depths of certain noteworthy partially ordered value structures, and argues for the finitude of value. Incomparable Values will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, value theory, rational decision theory, and logic.

Essential Values-Based Practice
Essential Values-Based Practice

Author: K. W. M. Fulford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0521530253

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The most likely reason for unsatisfactory clinical consultations is a failure of values-based practice - not ascertaining the relevant values perspectives and acting on them in an appropriate manner. This book will help clinicians acquire and develop the processes and skills of values-based practice, improving outcomes for patients, carers and clinicians.

Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged

Author: Ayn Rand

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-04-21

Total Pages: 1244

ISBN-13: 1101137193

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Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.

Ada 2005 Reference Manual. Language and Standard Libraries
Ada 2005 Reference Manual. Language and Standard Libraries

Author: S. Tucker Taft

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-05-18

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 354069336X

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The Ada 2005 Reference Manual combines the International Standard ISO/IEC 8652/1995(E) for the programming language Ada with the corrections of the Technical Corrigendum 1 approved by ISO in February 2001 and with the Amendment 1 expected to be approved by ISO in late 2006 or early 2007. Both the Technical Corrigendum 1 and the Amendment 1 list only the changes made to the International Standard.

Moral Questions in the Classroom
Moral Questions in the Classroom

Author: Katherine G. Simon

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780300101683

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In this study, Katherine Simon analyses the ways teachers address or avoid moral issues that arise in middle and high school classrooms, then explains how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy.

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 7278

ISBN-13: 0081022964

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context

New Developments in Multiple Objective and Goal Programming
New Developments in Multiple Objective and Goal Programming

Author: Dylan Jones

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-17

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 3642103545

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This volume shows the state-of-the-art in both theoretical development and application of multiple objective and goal programming. Applications from the fields of supply chain management, financial portfolio selection, financial risk management, insurance, medical imaging, sustainability, nurse scheduling, project management, water resource management, and the interface with data envelopment analysis give a good reflection of current usage. A pleasing variety of techniques are used including models with fuzzy, group-decision, stochastic, interactive, and binary aspects. Additionally, two papers from the upcoming area of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are included. The book is based on the papers of the 8th International Conference on Multi-Objective and Goal Programming (MOPGP08) which was held in Portsmouth, UK, in September 2008.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Atefeh Farzindar

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 3642130585

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2010, held in Ottawa, Canada, in May/June 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 26 revised short papers, 12 papers from the graduate student symposium and the abstracts of 3 keynote presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on text classification; text summarization and IR; reasoning and e-commerce; probabilistic machine learning; neural networks and swarm optimization; machine learning and data mining; natural language processing; text analytics; reasoning and planning; e-commerce; semantic web; machine learning; and data mining.