Philosophy 9520, Ethical Theory

RECENT WORK ON INTRINSIC VALUE

FALL 2006

 

Robert Johnson

433 GCB

884-6210

johnsonrn at missouri dot edu

Office Hours: TBA

(and by appointment)

 

Recent work on intrinsic value.

 

All readings will be collected in folders in the TA office.

 

Requirements will include producing an APA-style colloquium paper and a presentation to the class.

 

READINGS

 

Aug. 24: Introduction, G.E. Moore

á      G.E. Moore, "The Subject-Matter of Ethics"

 

Aug. 31: G.E. Moore (cont.)

á      ---------------, "The Conception of Intrinsic Value" (from Philosophical Studies)

 

Sept 7: Ross

á      W.D. Ross, "The meaning of ÔgoodÕ" (from The Right and the Good)

 

Sept. 14: Geach v. Hare

á      P.T. Geach, "Good and Evil"

á      R.M. Hare, "Geach: Good and Evil"

 

Sept 21: Chisholm

á      R. Chisholm. "Intrinsic Value"

á      ---------------. "Defining Intrinsic Value" Analysis Ô81

 

Sept 28. NO CLASS

 

Oct. 5: Problems with the Concept of Intrinsic Value

á      Korsgaard, Christine. "Two Distinctions in Value" Phil Review 1983

 

Oct 12: Problems (cont.)

á      JJ Thomson, "The Right and the Good" Journal of Philosophy 1997

 

Oct 19: Problems (Cont.)

á      Kagan, Shelly (1998), "Rethinking Intrinsic Value", Journal of Ethics 2: 277-297

á      Fred Feldman,  "Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value" Journal of Ethics 2, 1998, 339-354

 

Oct 26: Problems (Cont.)

á      Rabinowicz W. & R¿nnow-Rasmussen, T. "A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and For Its Own Sake" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

 

Nov 2: Defenses of Intrinsic Value

á      Lemos, Noah, pp. 3-45 of his Intrinsic Value 1994

 

Nov 9: Defenses of Intrinsic Value

á      Bradley, Ben. "Is Intrinsic Value Conditional?" Philosophical Studies 2002

 

Nov 16: Defenses of Intrinsic Value

á      Zimmerman, Michael. Pp. 15-123 of his The Nature of Intrinsic Value 2001

 

Dec. 7: Defenses of Intrinsic Value

á      Zimmerman, (cont.)

 

 

 

 

 

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