Abstract
Orsi and Garcia (Philos Stud, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01471-6) argue that fitting-attitude analysis of value (FA-analysis, for short) is vulnerable to an explanatory objection. On FA-analysis, for an object to be valuable is for it to be a fitting target of an attitude—a pro-attitude if its value is positive and a con-attitude if it is negative. For different kinds of value different kinds of attitudes are fitting: desire for desirability, admiration for admirability, etc. To explain the fittingness relation we therefor need to appeal to the features of the relevant attitude, but these seldom, if ever, are needed for explaining the object’s value. This explanatory disparity between the analysans and the analysandum implies that FA-analysis must be incorrect. In our reply to Orsi and Garcia, we provide a refutation of their objection. We argue that the features of a fitting attitude do have a right place in the explanation of an object’s value, even though they are not among the properties that make the object valuable. They help to explain this value-making relation itself.
Highlights
In a recent paper in this journal, Francesco Orsi and Andres Garcia argue that the influential fitting-attitude analysis of value (FA-analysis, for short) is vulnerable to an objection that has not been raised before (Orsi and Garcia 2020)
Orsi and Garcia maintain that FA-analysis is open to an ‘‘explanatory objection’’: In order to explain why an object is a fitting target of a certain kind of attitude, the explanation has to refer to the properties of the object and to the properties of the attitude
The idea Orsi and Garcia consider is that in the complete explanation of an object’s value, which brings in its whole supervenience base, facts about attitudinal properties might need to be invoked as such enablers
Summary
In a recent paper in this journal, Francesco Orsi and Andres Garcia argue that the influential fitting-attitude analysis of value (FA-analysis, for short) is vulnerable to an objection that has not been raised before (Orsi and Garcia 2020). Orsi and Garcia maintain that FA-analysis is open to an ‘‘explanatory objection’’: In order to explain why an object is a fitting target of a certain kind of attitude, the explanation has to refer to the properties of the object and to the properties of the attitude.
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