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- Title: Evolutionary Naturalism and the Logical Structure of Valuation: The Other Side of Error Theory.
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 268 KB
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ABSTRACT: One standard way to conceive value is in terms of properties, as G.E. Moore does when he argues that goodness is a "simple and indefinable" property. Those who advocate this property conception of value often draw an analogy with color. The analogy with color is informative, but since these accounts typically get color wrong, they also get value wrong. Instead of being conceived as properties simply predicated of objects, colors should be conceived as relations between subjects and objects in viewing contexts. Similarly, as evolutionary naturalism makes clear, value is relational in that it is constituted by a relation between object, subject and context, and is grounded on "mattering". This relational account of value has an advantage over the property conception of value because it better explains actual ethical behavior. But most importantly, it gets valuation right, revealing all the important factors, and making clear how values are subjective--dependent on the nature of the subject, but still objective--grounded on the facts about mattering. KEYWORDS: Meta-ethics, Values, Evolutionary Naturalism, Color, Properties, Relations, Moore
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