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TitleHow to make
NameFrugé, Christopher (author); Schaffer, Jonathan (chair); Sider, Ted (member); Temkin, Larry (member); Bennett, Karen (member); Rosen, Gideon (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2023
Other Date2023-05 (degree)
SubjectPhilosophy, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Extent129 pages
DescriptionHow do we create something genuinely new? This dissertation lays out the beginning of an answer. The first half concerns the nature of creating and the status of the created. I offer a general conception according to which some generated elements of reality are as explanatory and unified as what ultimately produces them – and so, in that sense, are as real as can be. I also argue that while generation is often itself generated, eventually it’s brute. At some point, nothing generates generation. The second half of the dissertation turns to creators and what they create. Focusing on normativity, I use the preceding metaphysical account to offer a subjectivist metaethics that treats value as a special sort of artifact. Subjects create value for themselves by determining that certain aspects of the world determine their wellbeing. In thinking through normativity, we learn more about the contingency of certain sorts of creation, since, I argue, what links creator to created is itself often created by the fragile operation of creatures’ minds.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-hrk3-j423
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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