TODAY NE&EP webinar on Monday 2nd: Roland Iwan Luttens on Individual Choice and Incommensurable Values
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Dear all,
Our next NE&EP webinar will take place TODAY on Monday March 2nd at 5pm (Paris time).
The speaker is Roland Iwan Luttens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/ri-luttens). Roland Iwan will present:
Individual Choice and Incommensurable Values (joint work with Martin van Hees, Tilburg University; abstract below)
You can join the webinar with the following link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/61171520919
Add to your calendar: https://uio.zoom.us/webinar/u5UscOitrDsjG92tTfCICVhv38eXQVESSiF_/ics
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Maya Eden and Paolo Piacquadio
Title: “Individual Choice and Incommensurable Values”
Abstract: Using the notion of an agent's ‘value structure’, which consists of a set of values and a ranking of these values, we examine personal decision heuristics, ‘value rules’, that yield a (possibly empty) choice set for each value structure and each set of alternatives. Assuming that a heuristic is given that always generates a non-empty choice set for value structures that do not contain any incommensurable values, we study a family of extensions of such heuristics to situations in which two or more values cannot be compared to each other. The framework thereby allows for the possible existence of ‘hard choices’, i.e. situations in which incommensurability of values means that the agent cannot make a choice. The main result of the work presented characterises the extensions that form the family of so-called Dominant Quota Rules.