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Are there Objective Values

N. Maxwell

1996.4.1DALHOUSIE REVIEW

Abstract

Are there objective values - value facts, value features of things? I consider moral and metaphysical objections to the thesis of value realism that value features do exist. I refute value relativism or subjectivism, and argue against the moral and metaphysical objections to value realism. I defend conjectural objectivism, and argue that value features are like colours and other perceptual qualities, in being related to human aims, interests, experiences and physiology, but ohjective in that they do really exist.

Citation format

MAXWELL, N. Are there objective values. DALHOUSIE REVIEW, 1996.