Intrinsic Value

Concept and Warrant

By: Noah M. Lemos

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Hardcover | 24 April 1995

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This book addresses some basic questions about intrinsic value: What is it? What has it? What justifies our beliefs about it? In the first six chapters the author defends the existence of a plurality of intrinsic goods, the thesis of organic unities, the view that some goods are 'higher' than others, and the view that intrinsic value can be explicated in terms of 'fitting' emotional attitudes. The final three chapters explore the justification of our beliefs about intrinsic value, including coherence theories and the idea that some value beliefs are warranted on the basis of emotional experience. Professor Lemos defends the view that some value beliefs enjoy 'modest' a priori justification. The book is intended primarily for professional philosophers and their graduate students working in ethics, value theory, and epistemology.

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"...the discussions of higher goods and moral epistemology are quite useful, and the book as a whole is valuable in offering an unusually systematic treatment of a central concept of ethical theory." Ethics "In each case the discussion is controlled and acute and the conclusions provide significant challenges." Canadian Philosophical Reviews "Despite its rather slender size, Professor Lemos's book is philosophically very rich." Paul Eisenberg, International Philosophical Quarterly

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Value, plurality, parts, and wholes
The concept of intrinsic value	p. 3
Correct emotion and intrinsic value	p. 6
Some objections to this approach	p. 16
The bearers of intrinsic value	p. 20
The bearers of value: Abstract objects	p. 20
The bearers of value: Concrete particulars	p. 26
Organic unities and the principle of universality	p. 32
Examples of organic unities	p. 34
The principle of universality	p. 40
Higher goods and the myth of Tithonus	p. 48
Higher goods	p. 48
The principle of rank	p. 55
Higher goods and Mill's distinction	p. 59
Higher goods and the principle of summation	p. 61
Pleasure and its intrinsic value	p. 67
Sensory and nonsensory pleasure	p. 67
Pleasure and displeasure in the good, bad, and neutral	p. 73
True and false pleasures	p. 77
Hedonism	p. 80
The value of desire satisfaction	p. 84
Consciousness, knowledge, and the consciousness thesis	p. 88
The consciousness thesis and the value of nonsentient life	p. 93
Beauty	p. 97
Value pluralism and its problems	p. 99
Naturalism, nonnaturalism, and warrant
The distinctiveness of intrinsic value	p. 103
The objects of ordinary ethical belief and knowledge	p. 103
Nonnaturalism and traditional naturalism	p. 107
The identity thesis and intentional criteria of identity	p. 112
Constitutional naturalism	p. 118
Ethical facts and the explanatory requirement	p. 125
Naturalism and analysis	p. 129
Intrinsic value and modest a priori justification	p. 134
Preliminary remarks and assumptions	p. 134
A strong conception of a priori knowledge	p. 139
Modest a priori knowledge and justification	p. 144
The concept of an intrinsically acceptable proposition	p. 152
Coherence and experience	p. 161
Coherence theories	p. 161
The regress argument and the doxastic ascent argument	p. 163
Some objections to coherence theories	p. 173
Emotional and moral experience as reasons for belief	p. 180
Mere emotions as a reason for value beliefs	p. 191
Appendix A: Chisholm's definition of organic unity	p. 196
Appendix B: Some naturalistic analyses	p. 201
Selected bibliography	p. 208
Index	p. 213
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