Naturalism and normativity /

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Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 368 pages).
Language:English
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy
Columbia themes in philosophy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283422
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Other authors / contributors:De Caro, Mario.
Macarthur, David.
ISBN:9780231508872
0231508875
9780231134668
0231134665
9780231134675
0231134673
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? For scientific naturalists, the moral is that the normative must be reduced to the nonnormative, while for nonnaturalists, the moral is that there must be a transcendent realm of norms. Naturalism and Normativity engages with both sides of t.
Other form:Print version: Naturalism and normativity. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231134668