For the purposes of this paper, subjectivism about well-being holds that φ is intrinsically good for x if and only if, and to the extent that, φ is valued, under the proper conditions, by x.1 The natural contrast view, objectivism, holds that there are facts about any given person’s well-being that are independent of that person’s evaluative perspective. For subjectivism, unlike objectivism, a ...

This paper examines the role that creative choice, as stressed by Shackle, plays in the generation of economic value. In particular, we evaluate the relationships between creative choice, economic value and the institutional structure of an economy.

I present dynamic RBV and dynamic equilibrating process with the pattern recognition models 10 and entrepreneurial subjectivism. Opportunity is defined into two ways; value creating chance in RBV, 11 and equilibrating or dis-equilibrating chance in Austrian economics. According to pattern recognition 12 model with subjectivism, individual agents recognize opportunity with their own subjective c...

Value pluralism does not imply relativism or subjectivism about values. What it does is allow respect for an at least limited toleration of values with which one may profoundly disagree. Thus a doctor can respect the autonomy of a patient whose values he does not share.

In the first volume of On What Matters, Derek Parfit defends a distinctive metaethical view, a view that specifies the relationships he sees between reasons, facts, beliefs, desires, aims, actions, and values. Parfit's metaethical view is a version of what he calls 'Objectivism', and he explicitly argues not just for his preferred version of Objectivism, but against all versions of Subjectivism...

Judgment subjectivism is the view that x good for S if and only if, because, to extent believes, under proper conditions, S. In this paper, I offer three related arguments against theory. The are about what judgment implies well-being of welfare nihlists, people who do not believe there any properties, or at least none instantiated. maintain nihlists can be benefited harmed. implausible because...

ethnic language, nationalistic attunement with Hegelianism, Neokantianism, Lebensphilosophy, phenomenology, Heideggerianism, Marxism, and postmodernism. On the other side, more objective German philosophers stay on positions where normal, scientific standards of clarity and cross-territorial intertranslatability prevail (e.g., Humboldt, Herbart, Helmholtz, Hertz, Hilbert, coming to philosophy f...