Value by Acquaintance

I argue that we should recognize the importance of value by acquaintance, both as a philosophical concept in its own right and as a concept with applications for decision making. My argument centers on how the distinctive epistemic structure of knowledge-how is reflected in a distinctive capacity to value. After delineating my account of value by acquaintance and discussing its connection to Molyneux's problem and the neuroscience of decision making, I discuss its role in reasoning and practical decision making, including transformative decision making, connecting it to the reference class problem and the role of generativity in artificial intelligence. My discussion, in effect, shows how experience can matter for expertise in value assessment, and why such expertise (or wisdom) can be needed for practical decision making.

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