The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World (SUNY in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought)

"Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived"-- Provided by publisher Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I. Approaching the Fact-Value Problem 1 Facts, Values, and Other Dichotomies The Fact-Value Dichotomy Where the Dichotomy Came From The “Collapse” of the Dichotomy What in the World is a Value? 2 An Objective Relativism The New Realism Reformulating Objective Relativism Objective Relativism and Metaphysics Objective Relativism and Values What Is Missing in Objective Relativism? 3 Emergence in Nature Emergence An Ordinal Definition of Nature Values in an Ordinal Nature II. Nature and Human Judgments 4 The Feud over Purpose The Reaction against Mechanism Teleonomy Things That Matter Living Values 5 Animal Minds, Theirs and Ours What Are Animals? What Good Is a Mind? Teleological Agency Animals and the Fact-Value Distinction 6 Dimensions of Human Agency The Logic of Joint Intentionality Language Culture Free Will or Something Like It Conclusion 7 Beyond the Naturalistic Fallacy Evolutionary Epistemology The Myth of the Given Putnam Evolving An Ordinal Naturalist Conclusion 8 Values in Judgments A Tripartite Theory of Judgment Judgment and Language Kinds of Judgmental Validity Naturalizing the Modes of Judgment Judgments of Facts and Values Omnivalence 9 What Modernity Did to Values The Stages of Human Culture Modernity’s New Values What Have We Learned? III. Emergent Norms 10 Objective Morality Moral Foundations Theory Moral Foundations Revisited Morality and Its Neighbors Too Social to Be Moral? Conclusion 11 Truth and Logical Validity Logic among the Columbians Truth and Such Logic in Nature Who Won the Columbia Family Squabble? 12 Ethics of the Truly Social Animal Some Meta-Ethical Issues The Ethics of Hare Naturalizing Hare Conclusion 13 Political Rights, Political Wrongs Political Norms Modern Liberal Republicanism The Market Nationalism Culture Politics and Ethics Conclusion 14 Art Works The Germanic Background Columbians and Other Aesthetes Dewey’s Experience Langer’s Clothesline Buchler’s Exhibitions Mothersill’s Cactus Goodman’s Forgeries Danto’s Cleaning Products Margolis’s Stories The Final Columbian Squabble How, After All, Does an Artwork? 15 The Good Omnivalence and the Decline of Axial Reason The Spiritual, the Existential Notes Works Cited Index