Needs, Values, Truth - Essays in the Philosophy of Value

Wiggins, David

ISBN 10: 0631140441 / ISBN 13: 9780631140443

Edité par Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987

A propos de cet article

[7], viii-ix, [2], 2-366pp. Original cloth in DJ. Slightly rubbed to extremities, text lightly browned. Presentation copy to Professor James P. Griffin with note to ffep in pencil, and a few notes by Griffin in pen to margins. David Wiggins (1933-) is an English moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics Size: 8vo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Needs, Values, Truth - Essays in the Philosophy of Value
• Éditeur: Basil Blackwell, Oxford
• Date de parution: 1987
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0631140441
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780631140443
• Reliure: Hardback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good+
• État de la jaquette: Good+
• Signé: Presentation Copy from Author
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Cat XVII
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

In this collection of essays, the author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of logic and language. Conspicious among the various problems attempted is the controversial question of cognitivism in ethics. From the many projects and themes that run through the essays the following emerge most prominently: 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 part played in the fixation of the sense of evaluative language by the antecedent possibility of agreement in judgements and in sentiments; the irreplaceability and irreducibility for practical or valuational thinking of such ideas as those of need, self and metaphysical freedom. The collection comprises ten pieces altogether, including a new Postscript and three previously unpublished essays. Essays already published have been edited and revised, and in some cases extended.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.