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Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, namely that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. Taking Platos' Meno as a starting point of his discussion, Kvanvig tackles the different arguments about the value of knowledge and comes to the conclusion that knowledge is less valuable than generally assumed. Clearly written and well argued, this 2003 book will appeal to students and professionals in epistemology.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Values. --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities

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Sur le plan réflexif, le pluralisme des valeurs ne soulève apparemment aucune difficulté aujourd'hui. Traditionnellement il a toujours posé des problèmes de conflits et de hiérarchies. Afin de résoudre le premier problème, les valeurs ont été confinées dans l'espace de la vie privée ou soustraite à l'espace public et au test d'universalisation qui y « justifie » les institutions ; pour résoudre le second problème, on a entrepris la dévalorisation « généreuse » des valeurs ou leur proclamation a priori comme équivalentes. À reléguer les valeurs dans la sphère exclusive du privé, le risque est grand de les enfermer dans leur particularité, de leur permettre d'occuper ou prétendre occuper la place de l'universel sans aucune forme de confrontation et de gommer leur pluralité. À les relativiser purement et simplement, le risque n'est pas moins grand de voir la place de l'universel envahie, non par une quelconque valeur particulière, mais par ce qui se veut la mesure publique de toute qualité et appréciation aujourd'hui : les items de compétences. Face aux menaces qui pèsent sur le pluralisme des valeurs, sinon sur leur existence, les textes ici rassemblés réinterrogent entre autres ce que représentent les valeurs, leur pluralité, leurs liens, leurs conflits et leur prétention à l'universalité.

Values. --- Universaux --- Universals (Philosophy). --- General ethics --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Individuation (Philosophy) --- Individuation (Philosophy). --- Valeurs (Philosophie) --- Individu (Philosophie) --- Values --- #GOSA:V.A.M --- Axiology --- Worth --- Universals (Logic) --- Individuals (Philosophy) --- Individuation --- Particulars (Philosophy) --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Logic --- Philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Haecceity (Philosophy) --- universel --- institution --- valeur --- particulier --- vie privée --- pluralisme des valeurs --- éthique publique --- espace public --- pluralisme culturel

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This work deals with the values of the people in contemporary Europe. Using the survey data from the European Values Study, a number of basic values and the dynamics of value change are explored from an economic, political, social, and religious-moral point of view.

Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Social change --- Values --- Civil society --- Group identity --- European Union. --- Cultural pluralism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- European Union --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Social contract --- E.U. --- Pluralism (Social sciences) - European Union countries. --- Social change - European Union countries. --- Values - Europe. --- Civil society - Europe. --- Group identity - Europe.