Citations:evaluativism

English citations of evaluativism

• 1989, Raymond Martin, The Past Within Us: An Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

  The problem of self-refutation does not even arise for the subjectivist who argues for evaluativism, but denies skepticism.

• 2000, Hartry Field, “A Priority as an Evaluative Notion”, in Paul Boghossian, Christopher Peacocke, editors, New essays on the a priori, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 142:

  One way to press the complaint is to make an unfavourable contrast between evaluativism in epistemology and evaluativism in moral theory.

• 2000, Hartry Field, “A Priority as an Evaluative Notion”, in Paul Boghossian, Christopher Peacocke, editors, New essays on the a priori, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

  [O]n a factualist view it is factual disagreement that should be primarily important, so invoking disagreement in attitude seems ad hoc; whereas on Gibbard's or my evaluativism, there is only one notion of disagreement, and disagreement in attitude is simply a special case of it

• 2007, Stathis Psillos, “Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of van Fraassen's New Epistemology”, in Bradley Monton, editor, Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 149:

  Van Fraassen's recent call to abandon the search for 'objectifying epistemology' might be seen as a way to advance evaluativism.

• 2008, Carrie S Jenkins, Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 67:

  Field proposes an evaluativist approach to a priori knowledge, whereby our assessment of methodologies (and presumable, propositions encapsulating them) as 'reasonable' are taken to be merely evaluations of those methodologies.

• 2009 January 27, Hartry Field, “Epistemology without metaphysics”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 249–290:

  Part of the ground level import of evaluativism is that the function of morality, epistemology etc. is to give advice, to oneself and to others.

• 2015, Christopher Santos-Lang, “How to Reform Moral Education so that it Ceases to be the Primary Cause of Inequity and Social Injustice”, in AME2015 Proceedings, Association for Moral Education, page 1:

  Evaluativism is a substantially subconscious bias which causes us to disregard the perspectives of others whose genes lead them to opposing moral positions.

• 2015, Christopher Santos-Lang, “How to Reform Moral Education so that it Ceases to be the Primary Cause of Inequity and Social Injustice”, in AME2015 Proceedings, Association for Moral Education, page 3:

  Like the word "racism", the word "evaluativism" refers both to a kind of discrimination and to the philosophical theory offered to justify it.