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Book SynopsisRecent 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.
Trade ReviewReviewer 1: "Intrinsic value is a fundamentally important concept in ethics. The anthology contains a good deal of the best and most influential work on intrinsic value that has been done over the past 40 years. The pieces are sensibly organized, with later articles in a section responding specifically to earlier ones."
Reviewer 2: "This collection…offers a nice overview of recent developments in this field. The papers are grouped together in a coherent way. The introduction is extremely well written and gives an excellent summary of the articles included in the anthology and of how they are connected."
Reviewer 2: "Everybody who wants to teach on intrinsic value should use this work since it contains many major (recent) publications on the topic and the introduction is very accessible."
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Sources. Introduction. Note to Readers. Part I: Identifying the Concept of Intrinsic Value. 1. R.M. Chisholm; Intrinsic Value. 2. E. Bodanszky, E. Conee; Isolating Intrinsic Value. 3. R.M. Chisholm; Defining Intrinsic Value. 4. N.M. Lemos; The Concept of Intrinsic Value. 5. J. Dancy; Should We Pass the Buck? 6. F. Feldman; Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value. Part II: Doubts about the Concept of Intrinsic Value. 7. M. Beardsley; Intrinsic Value. 8. C.M. Korsgaard; Two Distinctions in Goodness. 9. S. Kagan; Rethinking Intrinsic Value. 10. W. Rabinowicz, T. Rønnow-Rasmussen; A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and For Its Own Sake. 11. J.J. Thomson; The Right and the Good. 12. M.J. Zimmerman; Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value. Part III: The Bearers of Intrinsic Value. 13. R. M. Chisholm; Objectives and Intrinsic Value. 14. N.M. Lemos; The Bearers of Intrinsic Value. 15. M.J. Zimmerman; Intrinsic Value and Individual Worth. 16. T. Tännsjö; A Concrete View of Intrinsic Value. 17. W. Rabinowicz, T. Rønnow-Rasmussen; Tropic of Value. Part IV: The Logic of Intrinsic Value. 18. R.M. Chisholm; The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs. 19. P.L. Quinn; Improved Foundations for a Logic of Intrinsic Value. 20. S. Rachels;Counterexamples to the Transitivity of ‘Better Than’. 21. K. Binmore, A. Voorhoeve; Defending Transitivity against Zeno’s Paradox. 22. E. Carlson; Intransitivity without Zeno’s Paradox. Part V: The Computation of Intrinsic Value. 23. N. Feit; The Structure of Higher Goods. 24. G. Arrhenius; Superiority in Value. 25. R.M. Chisholm; Organic Unities. 26. N.M. Lemos; Chisholm’s Definition of Organic Unity. 27. J. Dancy; The Particularist’s Progress. 28. G.H. Harman; Toward a Theory of Intrinsic Value. 29. E. Carlson; The Intrinsic Value of Non-Basic States of Affairs. 30. S. Danielsson; Harman’s Equation and Non-Basic Intrinsic Value. 31. F. Feldman; Basic Intrinsic Value. 32. M.J. Zimmerman; Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities. Bibliography.
