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  • Chapter 4 - Scientism: Reflections on Nature, Value, and Agency

  • from Part I - Interrelations
  • Edited by Anjan Chakravartty, University of Miami
  • Book:
    Science and Humanism
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 81-104
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    This chapter is an extended argument for the existence of value (including moral) properties in the natural world, refusing thereby the equation of nature with what the natural sciences study. The argument turns on considerations of agency, seeking to establish that we could not be said to have the agency we manifestly possess, if value properties were not in the world we inhabit. Appealing to considerations found in Gareth Evans about the nature of belief, the chapter extends those considerations to take in our notion of desires as well, and draws from that extension the chapter’s grounds for saying that only if there are value properties without can our states of mind within possess the motivational power that makes possible our agency.