Needs, Values, Truth
Author | : David Wiggins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0198237197 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780198237198 |
Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author ranges between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language, looking at questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.