The Emergence of Value

<p><b>Argues that truth moral right political right and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity if naturalism is rightly conceived.</b></p><p>Philosophers social scientists and natural scientists argue over whether a natural scientific account of human being is compatible with uniquely human norms like ethics justice art and the concern for truth. Many attempts at such an account have been tried and failed; others like evolutionary psychology have tried but stumbled. <i>The Emergence of Value</i> argues that a broad enough understanding of nature and human nature can incorporate human values and norms without reducing them to inhuman processes. Lawrence Cahoone advances the position that nature includes values as well as facts and human uniqueness is therefore compatible with nature as it must be. To demonstrate this we must consider multiple sciences and recent philosophical traditions and their impact on our notions of truth morality justice and beauty.</p>