CAN INSTRUMENTAL VALUE BE INTRINSIC? |
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Authors: | DALE DORSEY |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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