Value and Idiosyncratic Fitting Attitudes
Value and Idiosyncratic Fitting Attitudes
Norm-attitude accounts of value say that for something to be valuable is for there to be norms that support valuing that thing. For example, according to fitting-attitude accounts, something is of value if it is fitting to value, and according to buck-passing accounts, something is of value if the reasons support valuing it. Norm-attitude accounts face the partiality problem: in cases of partiality, what it is fitting to value, and what the reasons support valuing, may not line up with what’s valuable. Buck-passers have a solution to this problem and may claim that this gives them an advantage over fitting-attitude accounts. In this paper, we show how fitting-attitudes accounts can offer a broadly analogous, and equally attractive, solution to the problem.
Mchugh, Conor
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Way, Jonathan
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Mchugh, Conor
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Way, Jonathan
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Mchugh, Conor and Way, Jonathan
(2021)
Value and Idiosyncratic Fitting Attitudes.
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Howard, Christopher and Rowland, Richard
(eds.)
Fittingness.
Oxford University Press.
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Norm-attitude accounts of value say that for something to be valuable is for there to be norms that support valuing that thing. For example, according to fitting-attitude accounts, something is of value if it is fitting to value, and according to buck-passing accounts, something is of value if the reasons support valuing it. Norm-attitude accounts face the partiality problem: in cases of partiality, what it is fitting to value, and what the reasons support valuing, may not line up with what’s valuable. Buck-passers have a solution to this problem and may claim that this gives them an advantage over fitting-attitude accounts. In this paper, we show how fitting-attitudes accounts can offer a broadly analogous, and equally attractive, solution to the problem.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2021
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Christopher Howard
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Richard Rowland
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