From valuing to value : towards a defense of subjectivism / David Sobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobel, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 312 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Towards a defense of subjectivism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

David Sobel defends subjectivism about well-being and reasons for action: the idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about, that something is valuable because it is valued. In these essays Sobel explores the tensions between subjective views of reasons and morality, and concludes that they do not undermine subjectivism.

Contents:

Subjectivism and reasons to be moral

Full information accounts of well-being

On the subjectivity of welfare

Well-being as the object of moral consideration

Do the desires of rational agents converge?

Subjective accounts of reasons for action

Explanation, internalism, and reasons for action

Against direction of fit accounts of belief and desire / co-authored with David Copp)

Varieties of Hhdonism

Morality and virtue / co-authored with David Copp

Pain for objectivists : the case of matters of mere taste

The impotence of the demandingness objection

Subjectivism and idealization

Parfit's case against subjectivism

Subjectivism and proportionalism.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 8, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-178099-5