The Conception of Value

Grice, Paul

ISBN 10: 0198244959 / ISBN 13: 9780198244950

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1991

Beschreibung

Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine: firm and square, strong joints, no bumps, just lightly shelf-worn. Complete with original dustjacket: showing well, no tears, no chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 225mm x 145mm. Pages: 164. Fully indexed. Thus a better than very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 127695

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Titel: The Conception of Value

Verlag: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1991

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe:

The works of Paul Grice collected in this volume present his metaphysical defence of value, and represent a modern attempt to provide a metaphysical foundation for value. Value judgements are viewed as objective; value is part of the world that we live in, nonetheless it is constructed by us. We inherit or seem to inherit, the Aristotlelian world in which objects and creatures are characterized in terms of finality features, namely, what they are supposed to do. We are thereby enabled to evaluate by reference to function and finality. This is not surprising. The most striking part of Grice's position, however, is his contention that the legitimacy of such evaluations rests ultimately on an argument for absolute value. The collection includes Grice's three previously unpublished Carus Lectures on the Conception of Value, delivered in 1983. The work is aimed at scholars interested in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of psychology, and of mind.