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Realism and idealism in the theory of value
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dc.contributor.advisor | Haldane, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Lenman, James | |
dc.coverage.spatial | 329 p. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-02T08:13:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-02T08:13:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/14766 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis defends an account of value which emphasizes the central place occupied by experiences among the objects of evaluation, a point that is particularly stark in the case of aesthetic value, to which a chapter is devoted that adumbrates the wider understanding of value subsequently defended. More generally it is argued that values do not transcend the attitudes and institutions in which they are embodied. They nonetheless enjoy in virtue of their structuring by norms of consistency, stability and deference enough in the way of objectivity to do justice to various phenomenological considerations often thought to favour realism. It is argued however that this level of objectivity is compatible with the rejection of any form of reductive naturalism and, more generally, of cognitivism- views which should indeed, it is argued, be rejected in favour of an expressivistic understanding of value. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.subject.lcc | BD232.L4 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Values--Philosophy | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Realism--Philosophy | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Idealism--Philosophy | en |
dc.title | Realism and idealism in the theory of value | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Great Britain. Scottish Education Department | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
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