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CAN INSTRUMENTAL VALUE BE INTRINSIC?
Author(s) -
DORSEY DALE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01426.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , intrinsic value (animal ethics) , identification (biology) , epistemology , positive economics , philosophy , economics , mathematics , statistics , botany , environmental ethics , biology
In this article, I critique a common claim that instrumental value is a form of extrinsic value. Instead, I offer an alternative dispositional analysis of instrumental value, which holds that instrumental value can, in certain circumstances, be an example of intrinsic value. It follows, then, that a popular account of the nature of final value – or value as an end – is false: the Moorean identification of final value with intrinsic value cannot properly distinguish between value as an end and value as a means.