Personal value / Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rønnow-Rasmussen, Toni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values--Philosophy.

Values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 185 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rønnow-Rasmussen examines the notion of 'good-for', and provides a new analysis of personal value that justifies its inclusion within our classical value taxonomy.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. Types of Value""; ""1.1 Preparing the ground�different value concepts""; ""1.2 Isolating intrinsic value""; ""1.3 Isolating extrinsic final value""; ""1.4 Competing notions of intrinsic value""; ""1.5 The source of value""; ""1.6 Supervenience""; ""1.7 The Invariance Thesis""; ""1.8 Constitution""; ""1.9 Subjectivism and objectivism""; ""2. Fitting-attitude Analysis""; ""2.1 The origins""; ""2.2 A. C. Ewing""; ""2.3 The primacy of the normative over the evaluative""; ""2.4 Different value idioms""

""2.5 The FA analysis of final positive values""""2.6 W. D. Ross�s objection""; ""3. The Wrong Kinds of Reason""; ""3.1 The wrong kind of reason problem""; ""3.2 Dual-role attitudes""; ""3.3 Solving the WKR problem?""; ""3.4 Danielsson and Olson on the WKR problem""; ""3.5 The biconditional buck-passing account""; ""4. Mistaken Value Analyses""; ""4.1 Moore�s objection to good-for""; ""4.2 Instrumental value""; ""4.3 A bad approach to personal value""; ""5. For Someone�s Sake""; ""5.1 Types of attitude""; ""5.2 Sake, end, and objective""; ""5.3 Discerning attitudes""

""5.4 Identifiers and justifiers""""5.5 Two kinds of FSS attitude""; ""5.6 Summing up""; ""6. Examining the Analysis""; ""6.1 Dropping an FSS attitude""; ""6.2 Non-fungible persons and identity""; ""6.3 Good-for and welfare""; ""6.4 Two sorts of personal value""; ""6.5 Personal intrinsic value""; ""6.6 Agent-relativity and private values""; ""6.7 Personal value and universalizability""; ""7. Mo(o)re Objections""; ""7.1 Hurka�s views on good for""; ""7.2 Regan�s views on good for""; ""7.3 Rosati and good occurring in a life""; ""7.4 Personal and impersonal value""

""7.5 Thin-thin and thin-thick conceptions""""8. Problems and Possibilities""; ""8.1 Janus values""; ""8.2 Some counter-examples""; ""8.3 Darwall on welfare""; ""8.4 Different strategies""; ""8.5 Heathwood�s objection""; ""8.6 The good life and the argument from fetishism""; ""9. One Reason Dichotomy Less?""; ""9.1 Introductory notes""; ""9.2 The essentialist sense""; ""9.3 The number approach""; ""9.4 Reason-for""; ""9.5 Meeting the challenge""; ""9.6 An overcrowded boat""; ""9.7 More replies to the challenge""; ""9.8 A positive argument""; ""10. Value Bearers and Value Pluralism""

""10.1 Extrinsic .nal values""""10.2 Hedonism and preferentialism""; ""10.3 Preferentialism""; ""10.4 Value bearers""; ""10.5 Value-bearer monism""; ""10.6 Simplicity""; ""10.7 Some reductions""; ""10.8 Separating the concrete from the abstract""; ""10.9 Recapitulating""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-26549-4

9786613265494

0-19-161910-8

OCLC:

754326557