In this paper, I critique a common claim that instrumental value is a form of extrinsic value. Instead, I offer an alternative dispositional analysis of instrumental value, which holds that instrumental value can, in certain circumstances, be an example of intrinsic value. It follows, then, that a popular account of the nature of final value—or value as an end—is false: the Moorean identificati...

About the extent of moral agency in the animal kingdom, one view is that only humans are moral agents. Holding a different view, I argue that moral agency depends on the capacity for other-regard and the capacity to be attuned to significance—such that things matter to one. I derive a criterion where a creature is a moral agent if she performs an action that promotes others’ significant interes...

Abstract It is a platitude that belief subject to standard of correctness: correct if and only it true. But not all standards correctness are authoritative or binding. Some may be arbitrary, unjustified outrightly wrong. Given this, one challenge proponents the truth norm belief, answer what Korsgaard (1996) calls ‘the normative question’. Is binding regarding ought believe? If so, grounds its ...

In this paper, I ask whether educational value is determined in any way by intrinsic value. The aim of the paper to explore appeals an activity or state affairs can justify proposed turn Korsgaard's work on concept cast light relationship between and Korsgaard claims that often held distinction instrumental conflates two separate distinctions. These are intrinsic/extrinsic final/instrumental di...

In this paper we study the antecedents of subordinates’ trust in their leaders (STL). In particular, we focus on the effects of managerial trustworthy behavior (MTB) and subordinates’ perceptions of leaders’ trust in them (LTS). We develop a scale of managerial trustworthy behavior following the typology proposed by Whitener, Brodt, Korsgaard and Werner (1998) that includes: behavioral consiste...

Considering the propositions of Simon (1990;1993) and Korsgaard and collaborators (1997), that an individual who assigns priority to values related to altruism tends to pay less attention to evaluating personal costs and benefits when processing social information, as well as the basic premises of job satisfaction that establishes that this attitude is centered on a cognitive process of evaluat...