Brings together of some of the most important, influential writings by David Wiggins, drawing on his twenty-five years' work in the philosophy of value. New edition includes an essay on incommensurability and minor revisions to the text.

I: Claims of Need II: Universalizability, Impartiality, Truth III: Truth, Invention and the Meaning of Life IV: Truth as Predicated of Moral Judgments V: A Sensible Subjectivism VI: Deliberation and Practical Reason VII: Weakness of Will, Commensurability and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire VIII: Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism IX: The Concern to Survive Postscript to Essays I-IX X: Incommensurability: Four Proposals Index

David Wiggins , Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford