Recent Work on Intrinsic Value
Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value
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LIBRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 17
Managing Editor: Govert A. den Hartogh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
RECENT WORK ON INTRINSIC VALUE Edited by
TONI RØ NNOW-RASMUSSEN Lund University, Lund, Sweden and
MICHAEL J. ZIMMERMAN University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-3845-3 (HB) 978-1-4020-3845-7 (HB) 1-4020-3846-1 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3846-4 (e-book)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
vii
SOURCES
ix
INTRODUCTION
xiii
NOTE TO READERS
xxxvii
PART I: IDENTIFYING THE CONCEPT OF INTRINSIC VALUE 1 2 3 4 5 6
Roderick M. Chisholm: Intrinsic Value Eva Bodanszky and Earl Conee: Isolating Intrinsic Value Roderick M. Chisholm: Defining Intrinsic Value Noah M. Lemos: The Concept of Intrinsic Value Jonathan Dancy: Should We Pass the Buck? Fred Feldman: Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value
1 11 15 17 33 45
PART II: DOUBTS ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF INTRINSIC VALUE 7 8 9 10 11 12
Monroe Beardsley: Intrinsic Value Christine M. Korsgaard: Two Distinctions in Goodness Shelly Kagan: Rethinking Intrinsic Value Wlodek Rabinowicz and Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen: A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and For Its Own Sake Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Right and the Good Michael J. Zimmerman: Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value
61 77 97 115 131 153
PART III: IDENTIFYING THE CONCEPT OF INTRINSIC VALUE 13 14 15 16 17
Roderick M. Chisholm: Objectives and Intrinsic Value Noah M. Lemos: The Bearers of Intrinsic Value Michael J. Zimmerman: Intrinsic Value and Individual Worth Torbjörn Tännsjö: A Concrete View of Intrinsic Value Wlodek Rabinowicz and Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen: Tropic of Value
v
171 181 191 207 213
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PART IV: THE LOGIC OF INTRINSIC VALUE 18 19 20 21 22
Roderick M. Chisholm: The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs Philip L. Quinn: Improved Foundations for a Logic of Intrinsic Value Stuart Rachels: Counterexamples to the Transitivity of ‘Better Than’ Ken Binmore and Alex Voorhoeve: Defending Transitivity against Zeno’s Paradox Erik Carlson: Intransitivity without Zeno’s Paradox
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241 249 265 273
PART V: THE COMPUTATION OF INTRINSIC VALUE 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
Neil Feit: The Structure of Higher Goods Gustaf Arrhenius: Superiority in Value Roderick M. Chisholm:
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