Value Reasoning: On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 143
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Value Basics....Pages 3-9
Value Attribution....Pages 11-23
Rational Choice and Value Complementarity....Pages 25-34
Integration Problems....Pages 35-41
On Compound Evaluation....Pages 43-53
Rationality Issues....Pages 55-79
Rational Choice and Merit Complementarity....Pages 81-84
Circularity Issues....Pages 85-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Relational Value....Pages 97-101
Evaluating Cognitive Significance....Pages 103-109
Epistemic Evaluation....Pages 111-117
Allocating Scientific Credit....Pages 119-125
Evaluating Contention Tenacity....Pages 127-135
Back Matter....Pages 137-147

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Mind

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