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