creators_name: Edmonds, Bruce
type: techreport
datestamp: 1998-08-07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: phil-dec-theory
full_text_status: public
keywords: utility, incomeasurability, learning, goals, philosophy
abstract: This is a short article to examine the following possibility: that a single agent might simultaneously have different utilities that are incommensurable. Some arguments aginst this possiblity are considered and rejected. Two practical examples are given and its implications in terms of goal change and learning are discussed.
date: 1997-09
date_type: published
institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
department: Centre for Policy Modelling
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1997) The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/359/1/incutilA4.ps
document_url: http://cogprints.org/359/5/incutil.pdf