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...Dale Dorsey Subjectivism about well-being holds that ϕ is intrinsically good for x if and only if, and to the extent that, ϕ is valued , under the proper conditions, by x . Given this statement of the view, there is room for intramural dissent among subjectivists. One important source of dispute...

...Eden Lin Extant discussions of subjectivism about reasons for action have concentrated on presentist versions of the theory, on which reasons for present actions are grounded in present desires. In this article, I motivate and investigate the prospects of futurist subjectivism, on which reasons...

...Samuel Asarnow Sobel David , From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016 . viii + 312 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism collects fifteen of David Sobel's papers on normative...

...Huw Price In “A Subjectivist’s Guide to Objective Chance,” David Lewis says that he is “led to wonder whether anyone but a subjectivist is in a position to understand objective chance.” The present essay aims to motivate this same Lewisean attitude, and a similar degree of modest subjectivism...

... plausible version of Subjectivism (or “existence internalism” about reasons) and that it can escape some (though not all) of the arguments that Parfit lodges against it. The last two chapters of “Reasons” concern morality, and each does important spadework for the Triple Theory and for the Convergence...

... are committed to regarding them as good because we choose them (rather than as good in themselves). (Subjectivism Premise) If we regard something as good because we choose it, then we are committed to regarding ourselves as valuable. (Source Premise) If we regard ourselves as valuable, then we...

... grounds. Ridge argues convincingly (and Lenman agrees) that the best account will take these mental states to be attitudes with a “world-to-mind” direction of fit. Ridge argues that constructivists cannot accept this while avoiding a collapse into sophisticated subjectivism. Lenman thinks constructivism...

... subjectivism.6 Thus, when Hobbes writes that “good and mil are names that signify our appetites” (15.40))and that whatever a person desires he “cal- leth good” (6.7), he is generally read as saying that ‘good’ means something like “desired by me.” Added to the premises that I de- sire self...

... that if we adopt his view, we can still talk about what people should and should not do. Richard Double contributes an article explaining his free will subjectivism. Double holds that the question of whether one has free will is the question of whether it would be right to hold one responsible...

...-World Semantics for Conditionals 539 Caie, Michael, Belief and Indeterminacy 1 Dorsey, Dale, Subjectivism without Desire 407 Gert, Joshua, Moral Worth, Supererogation, and the Justifying/Requiring Distinction 611 Greco, Daniel, The Impossibility of Skepticism 317 Holliday, Wesley H...

... Sidgwick's utilitarianism and by rejecting Sidgwick's hedonism about welfare. Indeed, Irwin appears to reject all forms of subjectivism about welfare. On a number of occasions, he employs (familiar) arguments against preference-fulfillment accounts of welfare (466, 532, 886–87). His main worry is that one's...

.... There is nothing that is the referent of ‘red’, just as there is nothing that is the referent of ‘phlogiston’. A second view is what we may call subjectivism about color. The sub- jectivist agrees with the eliminativist that colors are not really features of the physical objects around us, or features...

... of science. Also noteworthy for philosophers is Howie’s discussion of the problem of subjectivism. Once again, the antagonists were at cross-purposes owing to their 440 BOOK REVIEWS divergent conceptions of the scientific enterprise...

...-fulfillment. Clearly, aspiration-fulfill- 589 BOOK REVIEWS ment must be limited by moral principle, or it will amount merely to some sort of anarchic subjectivism. But moral principles, in relation to mere desire, seem to have the role...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Wiggins David . 1987 . “ A Sensible Subjectivism? ” In Needs, Values, Truth , 185 – 214 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . 1. The “sentimental” values with which Rational Sentimentalism is concerned are just those value-properties...

..., 283. German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801. By Frederick C. Beiser. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 726. Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Con- temporary Issues. By Richard H. Bell. New York: Routledge...

... of Modernity. Cultural Memory in the Present. By Niklas Luhmann. Ed. William Rasch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 226. Richard Rorty. In the series Philosophy Now. By Alan Malachowski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 202. Beyond Subjectivism: Heidegger...

... follows Shaftesbury in his “realism” but this is not proper moral realism and instead Hutcheson's account of the moral sense commits him to subjectivism. This is important for Irwin's discussion of Hume, but there should be more argument, given that there are other ways of interpreting the moral sense...

..., ed. Indian- apolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000. Pp. xii, 625. Ethics: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives. By James P. Sterba, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. v, 570. The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Coloul...

..., F., and R. Pargetter. 1987 . An Objectivist's Guide to Subjectivism about Color. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 160 : 127 -41. Reprinted in Byrne and Hilbert 1997b, 67-79. Jacobs, G. H., and J. F. Deegan. 1997 . Spectral Sensitivity of Macaque Monkeys Measured with ERG Flicker...