Evaluative Perception by Anna Bergqvist, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgment - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded asthe paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant kind of evaluation is perceptual. For example, in aesthetics, some have claimed that adequate aesthetic judgment must be grounded in the appreciator's first hand-hand perceptual experience of theitem judged. In ethics, reference to the existence and importance of something like ethical perception is found in a number of traditions, for example, in virtue ethics and sentimentalism. This volume brings together philosophers in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, and value theory to investigate what we call evaluative perception. Specifically, they engage with (1) Questions regarding the existence and nature of evaluative perception: Are there perceptualexperiences of values? If so, what is their nature? Are perceptual experiences of values sui generis? Are values necessary for certain kinds of perceptual experience? (2) Questions about epistemology: Can evaluative perceptual experiences ever justify evaluative judgments? Are perceptual experiencesof values necessary for certain kinds of justified evaluative judgments? (3) Questions about value theory: Is the existence of evaluative perceptual experience supported or undermined by particular views in value theory? Are particular views in value theory supported or undermined by the existenceof evaluative perceptual experience? | Evaluative Perception by Anna Bergqvist, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters