David Sobel

From Valuing to Value

A Defense of Subjectivism

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Produktbeschreibung

David Sobel defends subjectivism about well-being and reasons for action: the idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about, that something is valuable because it is valued. In these essays Sobel explores the tensions between subjective views of reasons and morality, and concludes that they do not undermine subjectivism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198843887
• ISBN-10: 0198843887
• Artikelnr.: 56913900

Autorenporträt

David Sobel is Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. Much of his research has reflected an abiding interest in understanding and defending desire-based or subjectivist accounts of well-being and reasons for action. With Peter Vallentyne and Steven Wall he co-edits Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Subjectivism and Reasons to be Moral
2: Full Information Accounts of Well-Being
3: On the Subjectivity of Welfare
4: Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration
5: Do the Desires of Rational Agents Converge?
6: Subjective Accounts of Reasons for Action
7: Explanation, Internalism, and Reasons for Action
8: (co-authored with David Copp): Against Direction of Fit Accounts of Belief and Desire
9: Varieties of Hedonism
10: (co-authored with David Copp): Morality and Virtue
11: Pain for Objectivists: The Case of Matters of Mere Taste
12: The Impotence of the Demandingness Objection
13: Subjectivism and Idealization
14: Parfit s Case Against Subjectivism
15: Subjectivism and Proportionalism