The Understanding of Value and the Value of Understanding

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dc.contributor.advisorKriegel, Uriah
dc.creatorWigglesworth, Logan
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-22T22:19:08Z
dc.date.available2024-01-22T22:19:08Z
dc.date.created2024-05
dc.date.issued2024-01-16
dc.date.submittedMay 2024
dc.date.updated2024-01-22T22:19:08Z
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dc.description.abstractEpistemologists have distinguished mere knowledge from understanding. When one understands a proposition, one has a deeper grasp of its truth. This same distinction applies in the moral domain. One can merely know a moral proposition, for instance through testimony, without really having a deep understanding of it. My dissertation defends an affective account of moral understanding. Using phenomenological considerations, I first argue that emotional experiences allow us to grasp, and thus understand, moral propositions about specific acts and individuals. I then argue that emotional dispositions are the essence of understanding general moral principles. This account avoids problems with inferentialist accounts and also explains why certain moral propositions seem to defy human comprehension.
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dc.identifier.citationWigglesworth, Logan. "The Understanding of Value and the Value of Understanding." (2024) PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/115357
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115357
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectMoral Understanding
dc.subjectemotion
dc.subjectphenomenology
dc.titleThe Understanding of Value and the Value of Understanding
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.departmentPhilosophy
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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