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Value, Reality, and Desire
By Graham Oddie
265 pages
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- Clarendon
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Synopsis
What is the nature of value and how can we have knowledge of it? Is something valuable because we desire it or do we desire it because it is valuable? These are the fundamental questions addressed and answered in this book. Graham Oddie argues that there are mind-independent irreducible facts about value, which are causally efficacious, and that we have knowledge of value by experiential acquaintance. Anyone working in ethics and metaphysics will find Value, Reality, and Desire a highly ...
What is the nature of value and how can we have knowledge of it? Is something valuable because we desire it or do we desire it because it is valuable? These are the fundamental questions addressed and answered in this book. Graham Oddie argues that there are mind-independent irreducible facts about value, which are causally efficacious, and that we have knowledge of value by experiential acquaintance. Anyone working in ethics and metaphysics will find Value, Reality, and Desire a highly original and rewarding contribution.
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Table of contents
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- Value, Reality, and Desire i
- Value, Reality, and Desire iii
- Acknowledgements vii
- Contents ix
- List of Figures xiii
- List of Tables xv
- 1: Reality and Value 1
- 2: Judgement and Desire 28
- 3 Desires as Value Data 47
- 4 Value as Refined Desire 82
- 5 Value Beyond Desire 107
- 6 Irreducible Value 141
- 7 Value as Cause 181
- 8 Value, Judgement, and Desire: Bridging the Gaps 211
- Appendices 240
- References 244
- Value, Reality, and Desire i
- Value, Reality, and Desire iii
- Acknowledgements vii
- Contents ix
- List of Figures xiii
- List of Tables xv
- 1: Reality and Value 1
- 2: Judgement and Desire 28
- 3 Desires as Value Data 47
- 4 Value as Refined Desire 82
- 5 Value Beyond Desire 107
- 6 Irreducible Value 141
- 7 Value as Cause 181
- 8 Value, Judgement, and Desire: Bridging the Gaps 211
- Appendices 240
- References 244
- Index 249