Incommensurability arises as a matter of course from the under-determination of theories by the evidence, i.e., whenever even agreement on the facts allows for disagreements concerning the …

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Two line segments are said to be commensurable if they are both integral multiples of some common (smaller) segment. For example, if one segment is of unit length and the other is of length 3/2 then …

We argue that degrees of commensurability are independently motivated and, indeed, required to do justice to various axiological intuitions. We deploy these new value relations to provide a response to …

Accordingly, I will understand by "commensurability" a more demanding relation between values (or options containing them), one that does not follow automatically upon an individual's ability to state a …

Rather, these are representations of effects of theoretical interest in the ideal experiment, which an empirical researcher might never encounter. The commensurability problem is about whether actual …

That is, commensurability is taken to be a property inhering in values, reasons, options, or norms, and much of the debate is about whether that property does or does not inhere in all values, reasons, …