Facts and Values

Facts and Values
Author: Giancarlo Marchetti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317354672

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications. The assumption that facts and values inhabit distinct, unbridgeable conceptual and experiential domains has long dominated scientific and philosophical discourse, but this separation has been seriously called into question from a number of corners. The original essays here collected offer a diversity of responses to fact-value dichotomy, including contributions from Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam who are rightly credited with revitalizing philosophical interest in this alleged opposition. Both they, and many of our contributors, are in agreement that the relationship between epistemic developments and evaluative attitudes cannot be framed as a conflict between descriptive and normative understanding. Each chapter demonstrates how and why contrapositions between science and ethics, between facts and values, and between objective and subjective are false dichotomies. Values cannot simply be separated from reason. Facts and Values will therefore prove essential reading for analytic and continental philosophers alike, for theorists of ethics and meta-ethics, and for philosophers of economics and law.

Facts, Values, and Norms

Facts, Values, and Norms
Author: Peter Railton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2003-03-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521426930

In our everyday lives we struggle with the notions of why we do what we do and the need to assign values to our actions. Somehow, it seems possible through experience and life to gain knowledge and understanding of such matters. Yet once we start delving deeper into the concepts that underwrite these domains of thought and actions, we face a philosophical disappointment. In contrast to the world of facts, values and morality seem insecure, uncomfortably situated, easily influenced by illusion or ideology. How can we apply this same objectivity and accuracy to the spheres of value and morality? In the essays included in this collection, Peter Railton shows how a fairly sober, naturalistically informed view of the world might nonetheless incorporate objective values and moral knowledge. This book will be of interest to professionals and students working in philosophy and ethics.

Facts, Values, and Morality

Facts, Values, and Morality
Author: Richard B. Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1996-09-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521578271

This book, by an influential moral philosopher, focuses on how value judgments and moral belief can be justified.

The Moral Landscape

The Moral Landscape
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 143917122X

Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

In Search of Moral Knowledge

In Search of Moral Knowledge
Author: R. Scott Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830880216

For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.

Facts, Values, and Norms

Facts, Values, and Norms
Author: Peter Albert Railton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9786610414581

We struggle daily with the notions of why we do what we do and of assigning values to our actions, although it seems possible through experience to gain knowledge and understanding of such matters. In contrast to the world of facts, values and morality seem insecure, easily influenced by illusion or ideology. How can objectivity and accuracy be applied to values and morality? Peter Railton's study reveals how a naturalistically informed view of the world might incorporate objective values and moral knowledge.

Exploring Fact and Value

Exploring Fact and Value
Author: Abraham Edel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781412823258

The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of the way value and fact are construed, then locates where scientific materials enter into ethics. Part two deals with issues of moral attitude and practical responsibility in the work of science and technology. Scientists' social responsibility as a function of changing social roles of science, and knowledge and responsibility in the professions are examined. In the concluding chapter Edel examines the dichotomy between fact and value as a social and an ideational phenomenon.

The Variety of Values

The Variety of Values
Author: Susan R. Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195332814

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.

Facts and Values

Facts and Values
Author: Charles L. Stevenson
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1975-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Moral Principles and Social Values

Moral Principles and Social Values
Author: Jennifer Trusted
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2002-08-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135794510

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.