evaluative diversity

plural evaluative diversities

1. countableuncountableThe disparity of worldviews and moral beliefs (the object that is discriminated in evaluativism).

   But such evaluative diversity just is what reasonable pluralism about values involves.

   2001, Joel Anderson, “Competent Need-Interpretation and Discourse Ethics”, in William Bohman, Rehg James, editors, Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory: Essays in Honor of Thomas McCarthy, Mit Press, →ISBN, page 208

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   Evaluative diversity lies in the process of forming overall evaluations of the product (e.g. good-bad) on the basis of product quality perceptions.

   2009, Evangelos Karapanos, Jean-Bernard Martens, Marc Hassenzahl, “Accounting for diversity in subjective judgments”, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, →ISBN, page 640

   Rational evaluative diversity is not about mere private conflicts that are irrelevant to what moral rules agents have reason to endorse; they are fundamental to what a person sees as rational social-moral rules to live by.

   2010, Gerald Gaus, “Evaluative Diversity and the Problem of Indeterminacy”, in The Order of Public Reason: A Theory of Freedom and Morality in a Diverse and Bounded World, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42