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Zusatztext After a clear introduction by the editors, the book includes twenty-two new essays divided into three groups. All of the essays are of high quality. Some are more accessible than others, but each essay was well-written and contributes to the overall excellence of the volume... it is a helpful resource to have on the shelf... Many students and instructors would do well to study the essays in this section to clarify their conceptions and inform their arguments regarding values. Informationen zum Autor Iwao Hirose is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the School of Environment, McGill University. He is the author of Moral Aggregation (OUP, 2014), Egalitarianism (2014), and The Ethics of Health Care Rationing (with Greg Bognar, 2014). He is also editor of Weighing and Reasoning (with Andrew Reisner, forthcoming from OUP).Jonas Olson is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. Before coming to Stockholm, he was for three years a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He works mainly on value theory, metaethics, and the history of moral philosophy, and he has published articles in journals like Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Utilitas. Klappentext Questions about value are important in many contexts. Value theory, or axiology, studies which things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and state-of-art overview of the debate in value theory. Zusammenfassung Questions about value are important in many contexts. Value theory, or axiology, studies which things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and state-of-art overview of the debate in value theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Introduction to Value Theory: Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson; Part I: Foundations; 1. Value and Normativity: Michael J. Zimmerman; 2. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value: Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen; 3. Doubts about Intrinsic Value: Jonas Olson; 4. Value and Desires: Graham Oddie; 5. Value and Emotions: Christine Tappolet; 6. Neutral and Relative Value: Garrett Cullity; 7. Value and Time: Krister Bykvist; 8. Monism and Pluralism about Value: Chris Heathwood; 9. Prudential Value: Valerie Tiberius; 10. Kantian Axiology and the Dualism of Practical Reason: Ralf M. Bader; Part II: Structure; 11. Value Incomparability and Incommensurability: Ruth Chang; 12. Value Superiority: Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowicz; 13. General and Personal Good: Harsanyi's Contribution to the Theory of Value: John Broome; 14. Theories of Value Aggregation: Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism , Prioritarianism: Nils Holtug; 15. Organic Unities: Erik Carlson; 16. Skepticism about Value Aggregation: Iwao Hirose; Part III: Extensions; 17. Value and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Matthew D. Adler; 18. The Value of Health: Daniel Hausman; 19. Freedom and Its Value: Prasanta Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu; 20. Value in Nature: David Schmidtz; 21. Population Axiology: M. A. Roberts; 22. The Value of Existence: Gustaf Arrhnius and Wlodek Rabinowicz; Index...
