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Value, Reality, and Desire

Author : Graham Oddie
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191534250
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Value, Reality, and Desire written by Graham Oddie and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causally efficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us. These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against the received view, Oddie argues that we can have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of 'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. In showing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.

Value, Reality, and Desire

Author : Graham Oddie
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199273413
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Value, Reality, and Desire written by Graham Oddie and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causallyefficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us.These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against the received view, Oddie argues that we can have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. Inshowing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.

Reason and Value

Author : R. Jay Wallace
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0199261881
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Value written by R. Jay Wallace and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reason and Value collects fifteen brand-new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. The subtlety and power of Raz's reflections on ethical topics - including especially his explorations of the connections between practical reason and the theory of value - make his writings a fertile source for anyone working in this area. The volume honours Raz's accomplishments in the area of ethical theorizing, and will contribute to an enhanced appreciation of the significance of his work for the subject.

The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory

Author : Iwao Hirose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199959307
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory written by Iwao Hirose and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Questions about value and about what is valuable are important to moral philosophers, since most moral theories hold that we ought to promote the good (even if this is not the only thing we ought to do). This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates pertaining not only to philosophy but also to other disciplines-most notably, political theory and economics. The Handbook's twenty-two newly commissioned chapters are divided into three parts. Part I: Foundations concerns fundamental and interrelated issues about the nature of value and distinctions between kinds of value. Part II: Structure concerns formal properties of value that bear on the possibilities of measuring and comparing value. Part III: Extensions, finally, considers specific topics, ranging from health to freedom, where questions of value figure prominently.

Love Divine

Author : Jordan Wessling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198852487
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Love Divine written by Jordan Wessling and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans, clarifying and defending conclusions concerning how the doctrine of divine love should be approached. It presents a unified theological account of divine love, punitive wrath, and redemption.

How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality

Author : Brown Landone
Publisher : David De Angelis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality written by Brown Landone and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown Landone was one of the first teachers of the scientific understanding of material and immaterial achievements in life. For his first 13 years he lived the usual routine of an invalid. Then his life changed dramatically. Although virtually helpless by many medical accounts, he was able to carry a heavy metal crate down five flights of stairs when he was left alone and a house fire broke out. Afterwards, young Landone knew that his subconscious had made it happen somehow. He figured that if he could do it on a subconscious level, he could certainly do it on a conscious level. This book is an important guide for those who have decided to use the immense power of their Subconscious and make a positive and decisive change in their lives.

The Nature of Desire

Author : Julien A. Deonna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199370966
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Desire written by Julien A. Deonna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desires are central to our lives, yet we rarely understand them. What are they? And are they motivational or evaluative states? Should philosophy adopt an alternative picture entirely? Answering these questions is vital to a number of issues in philosophy of mind and ethics. This volume comprehensively explores this neglected, albeit crucial, dimension of the mind.

Continental Philosophy

Author : William McNeill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557867003
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Continental Philosophy written by William McNeill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Immanuel Kant to Postmodernism, this volume provides an unparalleled student resource: a wide-ranging collection of the essential works of more than 50 seminal thinkers in modern European philosophy. Areas covered include Kant and German Idealism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Marxism and the Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism. Each section begins with a concise and helpful introduction, and all the texts have been selected for accessibility as well as significance, making the volume ideal for introductory and advanced levels in philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, and the history of modern thought.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 8

Author : Mark C. Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192563386
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 8 written by Mark C. Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198784643
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11 written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.

The Philosophical Imagination

Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190633794
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Imagination written by Richard Moran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in our responsiveness to art, to literature, to the lives of other persons, and in the practice of philosophy itself. Topics explored here include our emotional responses to mimetic works of art, the nature of metaphor as a vehicle of thought and in the work of rhetoric, and the understanding of the concept of beauty, as that is developed in contrasting ways in the work of Immanuel Kant and Marcel Proust. Several of the essays respond to the work of recent and contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Williams, Stanley Cavell, Harry Frankfurt, and Iris Murdoch, in the context of such themes as the philosophical problem of 'other minds', love and practical reason, the legacy of Sartrean existentialism, and the role of history in the disciplinary self-understanding of philosophy. The final group of essays focuses on questions about self-knowledge and the importance of the first-person perspective, developing ideas from Moran's influential book Authority and Estrangement (Princeton 2001). Topics discussed here include the nature of a person's 'practical knowledge' of her own action, the concept of the mental and the differences between self-understanding and the understanding of others, and the ambiguous role of narrative as a form of self-understanding. Throughout there is an attempt to draw out the connections between topics that are often discussed in isolation from each other, and to pursue them in the context of the recognizable human situations and questions which ground them. The essays are written in a vivid, humane, and accessible style which should attract a broad readership, both inside and outside the academic discipline of philosophy.

Handbook of Value

Author : Tobias Brosch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198716605
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Value written by Tobias Brosch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook combines the forces of the many disciplines involved in value research and covers issues such as definitions of value and the role of value in emotion. The book contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue by providing a common reference point to serve as a resource for disciplinary excellence and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization

Evaluative Perception

Author : Anna Bergqvist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191089206
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evaluative Perception written by Anna Bergqvist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgement - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant kind of evaluation is perceptual. For example, in aesthetics, some have claimed that adequate aesthetic judgement must be grounded in the appreciator's first hand-hand perceptual experience of the item judged. In ethics, reference to the existence and importance of something like ethical perception is found in a number of traditions, for example, in virtue ethics and sentimentalism. This volume brings together philosophers working in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, and value theory to investigate what we call 'evaluative perception'. Specifically, they engage with (1) Questions regarding the existence and nature of evaluative perception: Are there perceptual experiences of values? If so, what is their nature? Are perceptual experiences of values sui generis? Are values necessary for certain kinds of perceptual experience? (2) Questions about epistemology: Can evaluative perceptual experiences ever justify evaluative judgements? Are perceptual experiences of values necessary for certain kinds of justified evaluative judgements? (3) Questions about value theory: Is the existence of evaluative perceptual experience supported or undermined by particular views in value theory? Are particular views in value theory supported or undermined by the existence of evaluative perceptual experience?

The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception

Author : Dimitria Electra Gatzia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190648929
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception written by Dimitria Electra Gatzia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is hardly surprising given that most of our knowledge about the world is largely attributable to our visual experiences. The present volume is the first to instead focus on the epistemology of non-visual perception - hearing, touch, taste, and cross-sensory experiences. Drawing on recent empirical studies of emotion, perception, and decision-making, it breaks new ground on discussions of whether or not perceptual experience can yield justified beliefs and how to characterize those beliefs. The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception explores questions not only related to traditional sensory perception, but also to proprioceptive, interoceptive, multisensory, and event perception, expanding traditional notions of the influence that conscious non-visual experience has on human behavior and rationality. Contributors investigate the role that emotions play in decision-making and agential perception and what this means for justifications of belief and knowledge. They analyze the notion that some sensory experiences, like touch, have epistemic privilege over others, as well as perception's relationship to introspection, and the relationship between action perception and belief. Other essays engage with topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, exploring the role that artworks can play in providing us with perceptional knowledge of emotions. The essays collected here, written by top researchers in their respective fields, offer perspectives from a wide range of philosophical disciplines and will appeal to scholars interested in philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophical psychology, among others.

Hume on Motivation and Virtue

Author : C. Pigden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023028115X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hume on Motivation and Virtue written by C. Pigden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is devoted to questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology arising from the work of David Hume. The collection focuses on questions arising from Hume's views on reason, motivation and virtue including new essays from notable Hume scholars.

Donald Davidson on Action, Mind and Value

Author : Syraya Chin-Mu Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811572305
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Donald Davidson on Action, Mind and Value written by Syraya Chin-Mu Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wide range of innovative reflections on the pivotal role that Davidson’s concept of agency plays in his later philosophy and its impact on his epistemology, his philosophy of language and mind, and his philosophy of values. The authors critically assess central elements of Davidson’s program and offer reappraisals of his seminal contributions to, and his continuing influence on, the development of contemporary philosophy. By focusing on agency, the book reveals Davidson’s views to have been more dynamic and less reductive than previously acknowledged – pointing toward important new possibilities not only in the theory of knowledge, but also in the philosophy of mind. It is a valuable resource both for experts on Davidson’s philosophy and for those interested in central topics in the theory of action, the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of values. It is also of interest to researchers in adjoining disciplines, such as cognitive science, linguistics, and psychology.

Reasons from Within

Author : Alan H. Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199576904
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Reasons from Within written by Alan H. Goldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasons from Within defends the view that all our reasons for acting derive from our desires, and ultimately from our deepest concerns. There are no objective values in the world that could require our concerns to be other than they are. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the nature of values and reasons.