Naturalism and normativity /
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Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010. |
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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 |
Other authors / contributors: | De Caro, Mario. Macarthur, David. |
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ISBN: | 9780231508872 0231508875 9780231134668 0231134665 9780231134675 0231134673 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
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 |
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