Citations:evaluative diversity

English citations of evaluative diversity

• 1961, Peter Frederick Strawson, “Social morality and individual ideal”, in Freedom and resentment and other essays, Routledge, →ISBN, page 33:

  The region of the ethical, then, is a region of diverse, certainly imcompatible and possibly practically conflicting ideal images or pictures of human life, or of human life; and it is a region in which many such incompatible pictures may secure at least the imaginative, though doubtless not often the practical, allegiance of a single person. Moreover this statement itself may be seen not merely as a description of what is the case, but as a positive evaluation of evaluative diversity.

• 2001, Joel Anderson, “Competent Need-Interpretation and Discourse Ethics”, in William Bohman, Rehg James, editors, Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory : Essays in Honor of Thomas McCarthy, Mit Press, →ISBN, page 208:

  But such evaluative diversity just is what reasonable pluralism about values involves.

• 2008, John Doris, Alexandra Plakias, “How to argue about disagreement: Evaluative diversity and moral realism”, in Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, editor, Moral psychology, Vol 2: The cognitive science of morality: Intuition and diversity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 314:

  As Brandt (1959, pp. 102, 283-284) recognized, classic ethnographies such as Westermark's (1906) and Summner's (1934), although documenting remarkable evaluative diversity, do not support confident inferences about moral disagreement under ideal conditions, in large measure because they often give limited guidance regarding how much of the moral disagreement can be traced to disagreement about factual matters that are not moral in nature, such as those having to do with religious or cosmological views.

• 2009, Evangelos Karapanos, Jean-Bernard Martens, Marc Hassenzahl, “Accounting for diversity in subjective judgments”, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, →ISBN, page 640:

  Evaluative diversity lies in the process of forming overall evaluations of the product (e.g. good-bad) on the basis of product quality perceptions.

• 2010, Gerald Gaus, The Order of Public Reason: A Theory of Freedom and Morality in a Diverse and Bounded World, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 509:

  We have seen that the right to private property is fundamental to the jurisdictional solution to the problem of public justification under conditions of evaluative diversity.