Values and the Reflective Point of View: On Expressivism, Self-Knowledge and Agency
| By: | Dunn, Robert, Assoc Prof |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754654124 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409485162 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Values are inescapable. They pervade and shape our psychology, our agency, and our lives as reflective and self-knowing subjects. This book explores the crucial ways in which values figure within reflection and thereby shape our theoretical and practical lives, against the backdrop of an expressivist moral psychology that is sensitive to the vicissitudes of valuing.
Combining a discussion of the role that values play within reflection with a critique of a range of influential contemporary views in moral psychology and the theory of agency, Dunn shows how such views obscure or distort the nature of that role and that there is a