Vagaries of Value: Basic Issues in Value Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138517707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 151 str.

Nicholas Rescher

Opis

Pragmatism's founder, C

Spis treści

Preface

1 On Evaluation
2 The Rationality of Values and Evaluations (Against the Humean Conception of Reason)
3 Is Reasoning about Values Viciously Circular?
4 The Fallacy of Respect Neglect
5 Multiaspectival Evaluation
6 On the Evaluation of Claims and Assertions
7 On Excellence
8 Levels of Optimality (Best for Me versus Best for Us)
9 Axiological Neutrality (Value Exclusion [Wertfreiheit] and Value Neutrality in Science)
10 On World Improvement

Name Index

O autorze

Nicholas Rescher