Normativity

Nietzsche, naturalism, and normativity

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This volume comprises 10 essays on Nietzsche, one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. A team of experts clarify Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive ethical and meta-ethical, and connect his philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in a…

Meaning and normativity

by Gibbard, Allan

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The concepts of meaning and mental content resist naturalistic analysis. This is because they are normative: they depend on ideas of how things ought to be. This text offers an explanation of these 'oughts', borrowing devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the he…

Normative bedrock: response-dependence, rationality, and reasons

by Gert, Joshua

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Gert offers an account of normative facts and properties, those which have implications for how we ought to behave. He argues that our ability to think and talk about normative notions such as reasons and benefits is dependent on how we respond to the world around us, including …

The norm of belief

by Gibbons, John

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John Gibbons presents an account of epistemic normativity. Belief seems to come with a built-in set of standards or norms - truth and reasonableness, for example - but which one is the fundamental norm of belief? He explains both the norms of knowledge and of truth in terms of t…

Normativity in perception

by Breyer, Thiemo, Doyon, Maxime

fromNew directions in philosophy and cognitive science

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The ways in which human action and rationality are guided by norms are well documented in philosophy and neighboring disciplines. But how do norms shape the way we experience the world perceptually? The present volume explores this question and investigates the specific normativ…

Impassioned belief

by Ridge, Michael R.

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Michael Ridge presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments which offers distinctive treatments of key problems in metaethics, semantics, and practical reasoning. He argues that normative judgments are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and pa…

Confusion of tongues: a theory of normative language

by Finlay, Stephen

fromOxford moral theory

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Can normative words like 'good', 'ought', and 'reason' be defined in entirely non-normative terms? This book argues that they can, advancing an end-relational theory of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different ways it is ordinarily use…

Confusion of Tongues: a theory of normative language

by Finlay, Stephen

fromOxford moral theory

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"Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different ways it is…

Kant's theory of normativity: exploring the space of reason

by Pollok, Konstantin

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Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Kant's 'critical turn' as a normative turn, he argues that Kant's theory of normati…

To the best of our knowledge: social expectations and epistemic normativity

by Goldberg, Sanford C.

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Sandford C. Goldberg puts forward a theory of epistemic normativity that is grounded in the things we properly expect of one another as epistemic subjects. This theory has far-reaching implications not only for the theory of epistemic normativity, but also for the nature of epis…

The value of rationality

by Wedgwood, Ralph

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Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of what it is for states of mind and processes of thought to count as rational. Whether you are thinking rationally depends purely on what is going on in your mind, but rational thinking is a means to the goal of getting things right in you…

The domain of reasons

by Skorupski, John

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This text is about normativity and reasons. But by the end the subject becomes the relation between self, thought and world. Skorupski argues that the key concepts of epistemology and moral theory are normative concepts, and that what makes them normative is that they depend on …

Unbelievable errors: an error theory about all normative judgements

by Streumer, Bart

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'Unbelievable Errors' defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory states that normative judgements are bel…

Unbelievable errors: an error theory about all normative judgements

by Streumer, Bart

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Unbelievable Errors defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory states that normative judgements are belie…

Heidegger on Concepts, Freedom and Normativity

by Golob, Sacha

fromModern European philosophy

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This book offers a fundamentally new account of the arguments and concepts which define Heidegger's early philosophy, and locates them in relation to both contemporary analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of mind and on Heid…

Choosing normative concepts

by Eklund, Matti

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Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness, rightness, and what ought to …