Thank you for this article, I find the subject interesting.
In this article, I am rather surprised by the use of the word ‘value’, also in the comments, so I wondered if it was a language issue on my part.
However, the fact that the author wonders whether human values are good is something that fits in with my initial interpretation of the word value, which is as follows: value in the deepest sense, what is most important in life.
And my initial interpretation seems to be in line with that of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory/
... (read 389 more words →)The term “value theory” is used in at least three different ways in philosophy. In its
Hello, I am currently trying to find all the attempts at mathematical modeling of ethics (utilitarianism, axiologies, etc.) I have found several, do you have any ideas of keywords to type or even articles to suggest here ?
An example of a (simple) model is the notion of utility in the Von Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem, but I am interested in any attempt to formalize ethical situations.
More fundamentally, formalizing rules allowing to order the possible worlds (resulting from actions that an agent does or does not do).
A kind of mathematical model of the Must Be by ordering desired consequences (state of the world).
For the moment I found these, for example:
I tend to agree with the idea that AC is rather unfairly described as ‘to be rejected’, especially Banach-Tarski.
We are no strangers to strange things in mathematics, especially with infinity, so I don't really understand the argumentative structure: it's strange, then I don't know what to conclude from that.
It's no stranger than many other things, it seems to me : such as the fact that there are as many even integers as there are integers, or that there are as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as there are real numbers.
There are many strange things.
Also, with "the argument of strange things", we come back to rejecting the axiom of infinity, rather,... (read more)