From valuing to value : a defense of subjectivism / David Sobel.

Author
Sobel, David [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm

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    "Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the discussion. From Valuing to Value, written by an influential former critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink from acknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine subjectivism."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Subjectivism and reasons to be moral
    • Full information accounts of well-being
    • On the subjectivity of welfare
    • Well-being as the object of moral consideration
    • Do the desires of rational agents converge?
    • Subjective accounts of reasons for action
    • Explanation, internalism, and reasons for action
    • Against direction of fit accounts of belief and desire / co-authored with David Copp)
    • Varieties of Hhdonism
    • Morality and virtue / co-authored with David Copp
    • Pain for objectivists : the case of matters of mere taste
    • The impotence of the demandingness objection
    • Subjectivism and idealization
    • Parfit's case against subjectivism
    • Subjectivism and proportionalism.
    ISBN
    • 0198712642
    • 9780198712640
    LCCN
    2016939700
    OCLC
    949911791
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