Instrumental value – strong and weak
Författare
Summary, in English
What does it mean that an object has instrumental value? While some writers seem to think it means that the object bears a value, and that instrumental value accordingly is a kind of value, other writers seem to think that the object is not a value bearer but is only what is conducive to something of value. Contrary to what is the general view among philosophers of value, I argue that if instrumental value is a kind of value, then it is a kind of extrinsic final value.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
23-43
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volym
5
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Philosophy
Nyckelord
- trope
- Kagan
- extrinsic value
- Auxiliary value
- final value
- instrumentality
- Korsgaard
- intrinsic value
- usefulness
- value bearer
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1386-2820