Needs, Values, Truth
Essays in the Philosophy of Value
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 1998
- ISBN 9780198237198
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 216x138x23 mm
- Weight 514 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, David Wiggins; they are drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language; prominent are questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.
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Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, David Wiggins; they are drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language. The following themes are prominent:
the elucidation of the ideas of truth, objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity
the scope and limits of the attribution of the status of plain truth among the judgements of morals, politics and aesthetics
the compatibility of moral cognitivism both with criticism and with a 'no-foundations' view of morals, politics and aesthetics
the part played in the fixation of the sense of evaluative language by the antecedent possibility of agreement not only in judgements but also (the Humean addendum) in sentiments
the philosophical ineliminability of explanations that explain a subject's thought by vindicating it, and the indispensability of evaluative and subjective categories to such vindications
the irreplaceability and irreducibility for practical or valuational thinking of such ideas as those of need, self and metaphysical freedom.
For this third edition the author has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.
Table of Contents:
I: Claims of Need
II: Universalizability, Impartiality, Truth
III: Truth, Invention and the Meaning of Life
IV: Truth as Predicated of Moral Judgments
V: A Sensible Subjectivism
VI: Deliberation and Practical Reason
VII: Weakness of Will, Commensurability and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire
VIII: Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism
IX: The Concern to Survive
Postscript to Essays I-IX
X: Incommensurability: Four Proposals
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