Overview
- The only available anthology that focuses exclusively on intrinsic value
- Contains many of the most influential writings on intrinsic value to have appeared within the last 50 years
- Provides comprehensive coverage of fundamental issues such as the analysis, ontology, logic, and computation of intrinsic value
- Accessible introduction provides guidance in reading the contributions and extensive bibliography points the way to further reading
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 17)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identifying the Concept of Intrinsic Value
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Doubts about the Concept of Intrinsic Value
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Identifying the Concept of Intrinsic Value
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The Logic of Intrinsic Value
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About this book
Recent 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. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
Reviews
Reviewer 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."
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Work on Intrinsic Value
Editors: Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, Michael J. Zimmerman
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3846-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3845-7Published: 08 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6980-1Published: 19 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3846-4Published: 15 February 2006
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 428
Topics: Philosophy, general, Ethics