It purports to explain the justification of desert claims by appeal to claims about what appraising attitude would be "fitting".
Jury chairman Amir Kassaei, chief creative officer of DDB Worldwide, parent of adam&eveDDB London, said he sat out of appraising the ad to avoid any claims of bias.
Some philosophers have drawn attention to alleged connections between desert claims and facts about "appraising attitudes" or "responsive attitudes" (see, for example, Feinberg 1970).
Some have understood Miller to be claiming that something about these appraising attitudes provides the answer to our question about the justification of desert claims.
"In the appraising field, you call it appraising without comparables.
And heaven forbid if the appraiser comes up with a assessment below what the owners think their property is worth -- even if, as often happens, Mrs. Schrittwieser said, "You point out to them that the closet you see in the house you're appraising is not the bedroom that they claimed it was".
A certain appraising attitude may seem appropriate to a desert claim.
In the months after their father's death, his children -- Zelda, 25, Zachary, 31, and Cody Williams, 23 -- claim their stepmother spent her time appraising his memorabilia, jewelry and other personal effects for her benefit.
In his (1970) Feinberg hints at a different way in which appraising attitudes might figure in the justification of desert claims.
Commentators have understood these philosophers to have been defending the idea that desert claims can be justified by appeal to facts about appraising attitudes.
