Formal axiology and its critics

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Robert S. Hartman was a Research Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tennessee from 1968 until his untimely death in 1973. During that period, his thinking about values had an enormous impact on many of his graduate students and a few of his younger colleagues, who formed the R. S. Hartman Institute and who, with others attracted to his work, have continued over the years to apply and further develop Hartman's formalistic perspective on values. FORMAL AXIOLOGY AND ITS CRITICS Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Editorial Foreword Acknowledgments ONE Introduction Endnotes PART ONE: EARLIEST CRITICS TWO Axiology as a Science: Reply to Hector Neri Castaneda, 1961 1. The Argument of the Book 2. Logical Positivism and Axiological Positivism 3. Ethics and Meta-Ethics 4. Physics and Ethics-Metaphysics and Metaethics 5. Science and Philosophy as Methods 6. The Fallacy of Method 7. The Logical Difference Between Valuation and Description Endnotes THREE Some Spurious Proofs for the Pure Ego 1. The Argument from Unique Timeless Experiences 2. The Argument from Meta-awareness 3. The Argument from the Theory of Types 4. The Argument from the Infinite Divisibility of Time Endnotes FOUR Formal Axiology and Its Critics 1. Critical Reception of the Theory 2. Reply to Charles Hartshorne, 1965, 1967 3. Reply to Rem B. Edwards, 1968 4. Reply to Robert E. Carter, 1968, 1969 5. Reply to G. R. Grice, 1968 6. Reply to Nicholas Rescher, 1969 7. Reply to Robert W. Mueller, 1969 8. Reply to Gordon Welty, 19708. Reply to Gordon Welty, 1970 9. Reply to Pete Gunter, 1973 10. Reply to George Kimball Plochmann, 1973 11. Reply to Rem B. Edwards, 1973 12. Reply to William Eckhardt and Robert S. Brumbaugh, 1973 13. Conclusion: Theory and Practice Endnotes PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY CRITICS FIVE Ten Unanswered Questions 1. Measuring Personal Enrichment 2. The Duty to Reproduce, Contraception, and Mass Murder 3. Duty and Supererogation 4. Euthanasia 5. Generating Moral Rules 6. Complex Moral Rules with Qualifications and Exceptions 7. Assessing the Adequacy of Moral Rules 8. Human Rights, Conflicting Rights 9. Moral Sanctions 10. Marginal Human Beings and Animals Endnotes SIX A Reply to "Ten Unanswered Questions" 1. Measuring Personal Enrichment 2. The Duty to Reproduce, Contraception, and Mass Murder 3. Duty and Supererogation 4. Euthanasia 5. Generating Moral Rules 6. Complex Moral Rules with Qualifications and Exceptions 7. Assessing the Adequacy of Moral Rules 8. Human Rights, Conflicting Rights 9. Moral Sanctions IO. Marginal Human Beings and Animals Endnotes SEVEN A Quantum Wave Model of Value Theory 1. A Review of Certain Aspects of Quantum Logic A. Wave vs. Particle B. The Wave Nature of the Electron C. Wave Mechanics D. Types of Waves 2. The Relation of Quantum Theory to Value Theory A. Wave Families: Types of Concepts B. Particles and Waves: Intensions and Extensions C. Wave Interference and Value D. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Analytic Concepts E. Conclusions 3. Quantum Wave Model for Value Combinations A. Binary and Tertiary Value Combination B. Extrinsic Value and Partial Fulfillment of Intensions C. Pascal's Triangle D. Ordinal Ranking of Values E. Comparing Ordinal Ranking of Values F. Average Value for All Sets of Subsets 4. Applications A. Compositions and Transpositions B. Better Than and Worse Than C. Using Transpositions to Maintain or Create Value 5. Conclusion Endnotes ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES