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Buck‐Passing Accounts of Value
Author(s) -
Suikkanen Jussi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00253.x
Subject(s) - normative , property (philosophy) , tracing , value (mathematics) , epistemology , face (sociological concept) , order (exchange) , rest (music) , computer science , sociology , philosophy , economics , social science , medicine , cardiology , finance , machine learning , operating system
This paper explores the so‐called buck‐passing accounts of value. These views attempt to use normative notions, such as reasons and ought to explain evaluative notions, such as goodness and value . Thus, according to Scanlon’s well‐known view, the property of being good is the formal, higher‐order property of having some more basic properties that provide reasons to have certain kind of valuing attitudes towards the objects. I begin by tracing some of the long history of such accounts. I then describe the arguments which are typically used to motivate these views. The rest of this article investigates how some of the central details of the buck‐passing accounts should be specified, and what kind of problems these views face.