Value, Reality, and Desire

Name: Value, Reality, and Desire
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ISBN: 9780199562381

ISBN-10: 0199562385

ISBN-13: 9780199562381

Edition: 2009

Authors: Graham Oddie

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Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causallyefficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us.These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against…

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List price: $46.49
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English




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