Daniel Carey is a contemporary philosopher whose work engages with questions of value theory, particularly the objectivity of moral and aesthetic properties. He argues against projectivist and subjectivist accounts of value, maintaining that excellence in the moral and aesthetic domains is a feature of objects rather than a construction of perceiving subjects.
Defended objectivism about moral and aesthetic excellence against projectivist alternatives
Contributed to debates on the metaphysics of value and the nature of evaluative properties
Engaged with the relationship between aesthetic and moral judgment in contemporary value theory