Achievement
Bradford, GwenAuthor
Gwen Bradford presents a systematic account of what achievements are, and why they are worth the effort. She argues that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and offers a new perfectionist theory of value in which difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements.
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Gwen Bradford presents a systematic account of what achievements are, and why they are worth the effort. She argues that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and offers a new perfectionist theory of value in which difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015).
Achievements: they're great- but what are they? -- Difficulty -- Competent causation -- The value of achievement -- The relative value of achievement -- Puzzles and games.
Psychology
Social Sciences