NORMATIVE REASONS AND THEISM

by Harrison, Gerald

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Title Statements

Full title :NORMATIVE REASONS AND THEISM.

Summary

Normative reasons are reasons to do and believe things. Intellectual inquiry seems to presuppose their existence, for we cannot justifiably conclude that we exist; that there is an external world; and that there are better and worse ways of investigating it and behaving in it, unless there are reasons to do and believe such things. But just what in the world are normative reasons? In this book a case will be made for believing normative reasons are favouring relations that have a single, external source, filling this significant gap in the literature in an area within contemporary philosophy that has quickly grown in prominence. Providing a divine command metanormative analysis of normative reasons on entirely non-religious grounds, its arguments will be relevant to both secular and non-secular audiences alike and will address key issues in meta-ethics, evolutionary theory - especially evolutionary debunking threats to moral reasons and the normative more generally - and epistemology.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer International Pu
Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783319907963, 3319907964
oclc:on1039927612
LC Classification:BJ1-1725
Dewey Decimal:170

1. The Question -- 2. Normativity -- 3. Mentality -- 4. Unity -- 5. Externality -- 6. Mente Divina -- 7. Euthyphro -- 8. Predictions -- 9. A miscellany of objections -- 10. Conclusion -- Index.

Subjects

epistemology Ethics ethics (philosophy) Knowledge, Theory of Morale Philosophie Philosophy Religion -- Philosophie Religion -- Philosophy Théorie de la connaissance