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The emergence of value : human norms in a natural world / Lawrence Cahoone.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954- author.
Series:
SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.
SUNY Series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought Series.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethics.
Truth.
Naturalism.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Summary:
"Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
1 Facts, Values, and Other Dichotomies
The Fact-Value Dichotomy
Where the Dichotomy Came From
The "Collapse" of the Dichotomy
What in the World is a Value?
2 An Objective Relativism
The New Realism
Reformulating Objective Relativism
Objective Relativism and Metaphysics
Objective Relativism and Values
What Is Missing in Objective Relativism?
3 Emergence in Nature
Emergence
An Ordinal Definition of Nature
Values in an Ordinal Nature
II. Nature and Human Judgments
4 The Feud over Purpose
The Reaction against Mechanism
Teleonomy
Things That Matter
Living Values
5 Animal Minds, Theirs and Ours
What Are Animals?
What Good Is a Mind?
Teleological Agency
Animals and the Fact-Value Distinction
6 Dimensions of Human Agency
The Logic of Joint Intentionality
Language
Culture
Free Will or Something Like It
Conclusion
7 Beyond the Naturalistic Fallacy
Evolutionary Epistemology
The Myth of the Given
Putnam Evolving
An Ordinal Naturalist Conclusion
8 Values in Judgments
A Tripartite Theory of Judgment
Judgment and Language
Kinds of Judgmental Validity
Naturalizing the Modes of Judgment
Judgments of Facts and Values
Omnivalence
9 What Modernity Did to Values
The Stages of Human Culture
Modernity's New Values
What Have We Learned?
III. Emergent Norms
10 Objective Morality
Moral Foundations Theory
Moral Foundations Revisited
Morality and Its Neighbors
Too Social to Be Moral?
11 Truth and Logical Validity
Logic among the Columbians
Truth and Such
Logic in Nature
Who Won the Columbia Family Squabble?
12 Ethics of the Truly Social Animal
Some Meta-Ethical Issues
The Ethics of Hare
Naturalizing Hare
13 Political Rights, Political Wrongs
Political Norms
Modern Liberal Republicanism
The Market
Nationalism
Politics and Ethics
14 Art Works
The Germanic Background
Columbians and Other Aesthetes
Dewey's Experience
Langer's Clothesline
Buchler's Exhibitions
Mothersill's Cactus
Goodman's Forgeries
Danto's Cleaning Products
Margolis's Stories
The Final Columbian Squabble
How, After All, Does an Artwork?
15 The Good
Omnivalence and the Decline of Axial Reason
The Spiritual, the Existential.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Cahoone, Lawrence The Emergence of Value
ISBN:
9781438494470
1438494475
OCLC:
1394121403

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