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Interdisciplinary Value Theory
This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to value theory. It reviews how researchers in four academic disciplines – psychology, sociology,...
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Value Pluralism versus Value Monism
Value pluralism is the metaphysical thesis that there is a plurality of values at the fundamental level of the evaluative domain. Value monism, on...
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Anthropology and Value
Anthropological theories of value highlight the cultural processes responsible for value creation, re-creation, and transmission. This chapter...
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Philosophy and Value
Philosophers ask fundamental questions about values and valuing. Some of the philosophical debates about these fundamental questions have...
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Sociology and Value
This chapter traces the development of value theory in sociology and opens with Weber’s influential ideas about value rationality and value spheres....
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VI Value Ethics
This chapter is about the ethics of value. If the term ‘value’ originally belonged to the thinking of economics, then the concept of a value...
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Psychology and Value
Most psychologists take value to be abstract motivational goals that transcend situations and that systematically relate to one another. First, this...
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The Emergence of Value
The transition from the Zero to the One points in the direction of increasing value. The One is the self-negation of non-being, and the negative of...
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How to Assess Multiple-Value Accounting Narratives from a Value Pluralist Perspective? Some Metaethical Criteria
Nowadays businesses are often expected to create not just financial, but multiple kinds of value—and they report on this using numbers and...
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Philosophical Reflections on Use-Value
In research of Capital, “use-value” does not receive enough attention, whether at the political economy level or at the philosophical level. It is...
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Existentialist risk and value misalignment
We argue that two long-term goals of AI research stand in tension with one another. The first involves creating AI that is safe, where this is...
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Introduction: The Many Faces of Value
This chapter sets up the upcoming chapters of the book and introduces four essential aspects of value. The topic of value has personal, social, and...
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Scheler’s Phenomenology of Value as Value Pluralism
This chapter argues that the central challenge to value pluralism, the issue of the “super scale” or comparability of values, could be met by...
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The Value of Naturalness
It is often assumed that theorizing in terms of natural properties is more objectively valuable than theorizing in terms of non-natural properties....
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Nietzsche’s turn: from nature as value-less to value-laden
Nietzsche writes a preface to The Gay Science in 1886, four years after its first four books were in print. In this address, he explains that he has be...
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Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing
The value-free ideal in science has been criticised as both unattainable and undesirable. We argue that it can be defended as a practical principle...
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Stakeholder Capitalism and the Value Chain
The purpose of this article is to explore the idea of stakeholder capitalism. In particular, Freeman and Liedtka argue that a firm grounding of the...
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Truth-Value Constants in Multi-Valued Logics
In some presentations of classical and intuitionistic logics, the objectlanguage is assumed to contain (two) truth-value constants: ⊤ (verum) and ⊥...
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What if A Teleological Conception of Value is False?
In this paper, I will critique Paul Draper’s recent model of God’s motivational structure, according to which God can make hard choices. I will argue...
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Applying the feminist agrifood systems theory (fast) to U.S. organic, value-added, and non-organic non-value-added farms
The population of women farm operators continues to increase in the U.S. That growth, however, is mediated by research showing that women in...