{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-value-thomas-nagel-9781534768017","title":"The Feeling of Value: Moral Realism Grounded in Phenomenal Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of New York University's Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the past hundred years, ethical theorists have primarily looked for value in external states of affairs or reduced value to a projection of the mind \u003ci\u003eonto\u003c\/i\u003e these same external states of affairs. The result, unsurprisingly, is widespread antirealism about ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Sharon Hewitt Rawlette turns our metaethical gaze inward and dares us to consider that value, rather than being something \"out there,\" is a quality woven into the very fabric of our conscious experience, in a highly objective way. On this view, our experiences of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, ecstasy and despair are not \u003ci\u003esigns\u003c\/i\u003e of value or disvalue. They are \u003ci\u003einstantiations\u003c\/i\u003e of value and disvalue. When we feel pleasure, we are feeling intrinsic goodness itself. And it is from such feelings, argues Rawlette, that we derive the basic content of our normative concepts-that we understand what it \u003ci\u003emeans\u003c\/i\u003e for something to be intrinsically good or bad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRawlette thus defends a version of analytic descriptivism. And argues that this view, unlike previous theories of moral realism, has the resources to explain where our concept of intrinsic value comes from and how we know when it objectively applies, as well as why we sometimes make mistakes in applying it. She defends this view against G. E. Moore's Open Question Argument as well as shows how these basic facts about intrinsic value can ground facts about instrumental value and value \"all things considered.\" Ultimately, her view offers us the possibility of a robust metaphysical and epistemological justification for many of our strongest moral convictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Nagel, Sharon Hewitt Rawlette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1534768017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781534768017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Thomas Nagel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990000337151,"sku":"9781534768017","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e4d8791-255f-44b0-b27a-34ef5c344c60.jpg?v=1683302504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-value-thomas-nagel-9781534768017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}