Why are values the kind of things that can do what we want them to?

Workshop # 12, Efficacy of Value, Series 12,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

THIS WEEK: Some elementary properties of value have been given like, subjectivity, intentionality, phenomenality, quality and valence, as well as basic distinctions, such as between facts and values, is and ought, human and material values, and between attributed and intrinsic, or value states, or sufficient values. But it hasn’t been explained how such properties as structures of value, like temporality, directedness and sufficiency can enable value to do what we want it to in activites like morals, meaning and purpose. This is what we are going to do here. Reading, The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 7, Scn. vi.