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Value, Reality, and Desire
Graham Oddie
272 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956238-1
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Paperback
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26 March 2009
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- Sets out and defends many original and provocative theses in an engaging way
- The central thesis (robust value realism) has not been systematically defended anywhere else
- Very clearly written and highly accessible
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 causally efficacious. 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 the received view, Oddie argues that we can
have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of 'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. In showing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is
a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy
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Graham Oddie, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
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Review(s) from previous edition
"Oddie provides an impressive technical defense of value realism. Oddie's property theory...is an important addition to work on value realism.
- Vaughn Huckfeldt, Journal of Value Inquiry
"Oddie gives you something worth thinking about on almost every page, and I am envious of his ability to put complex ideas with crystal clarity...For anyone who wants to think rigorously but creatively about the metaphysics and epistemology that moral realism needs to be plausible, this book is essential reading." - Timothy Chappell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"A masterful book. The writing is clear and crisp and vivid ... the book has that rare quality of abounding with new ideas worth hearing." - Christoph Fehige, Times Literary Supplement
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1: Reality and value
2: Judgement and desire
3: Desire as value data
4: Value as refined desire
5: Value beyond desire
6: Irreducible value
7: Value as cause
8: Value, judgement, desire: bridging the gaps
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