Mauro Rossi (Université du Québec à Montréal) et Christine Tappolet (Université de Montréal) publient un nouvel article intitulé « Valuings as Sentiments » dans la revue Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Dans cet article, les auteur.ices défendent une nouvelle conception affective de la valorisation, selon laquelle valoriser quelque chose revient à éprouver un sentiment particulier à son égard.

Résumé

We are valuing beings, beings who possess the capacity to value things. But what is it “to value” something? The most common accounts in the literature hold that to value an item is either to have a first-order or a second-order desire toward it; or to believe that item to be valuable; or to care about that item; or to have a combination of all these mental states. In our paper, we raise some objections against all these accounts and defend a new affective account of valuings. Unlike standard affective accounts, according to which the term “valuing” refers to a single type of affective state, such as care, we hold that “valuing” refers to the members of a class of affective states, namely, the class of sentiments. On our view, to value something is to have a particular sentiment toward it. Since sentiments can be of different types, our account implies that there are as many ways of valuing things as there are types of sentiments.