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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value

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Author

Editor

  • Iwao Hirose
  • Jonas Olson

Summary, in English

The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic value has given rise to a batch of fundamental questions concerning the very nature, importance and coherence of our core value concepts. Section I outlines an approach to the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic value that has taxonomical advantages. Recent work has alerted us to the fact that the traditional way of explicating extrinsic value, as simply non-intrinsic value, leads to the conflation of a number of very different kinds of value. Section 2 contains a discussion of this debate about varieties of extrinsic value. Finally, Section 3 focuses on recent attacks on the very coherence of the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction and its role as a demarcation line between fundamental and non-fundamental value

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • Final value
  • intrinsic value
  • extrinsic value
  • instrumental value
  • supervenience
  • value constitution
  • good-for

Status

Published

Project

  • On Our Good Reasons

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780199959303