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Value, Reality, and Desire (Hardcover, New)
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Value, Reality, and Desire (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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