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.
Subject:	Naturalism. Normativity (Ethics) Naturalism. Normativity (Ethics) Electronic books.
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. 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

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Science, naturalism, and the problem of normativity / Mario De Caro and David Macarthur
Part I: Conceptual and historical background
The wider significance of naturalism: a genealogical essay / Akeel Bilgrami
Naturalism and quietism / Richard Rorty
Is liberal naturalism possible? / Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini
Part II: Philosophy and the natural sciences
Science and philosophy / Hilary Putnam
Why scientific realism may invite relativism / Carol Rovane
Part III: Philosophy and the human sciences
Taking the human sciences seriously / David Macarthur
Reasons and causes revisited / Peter Menzies
Part IV: Meta-ethics and normativity
Metaphysics and morals / T.M. Scanlon
The naturalist gap in ethics / Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson
Phenomenology and the normativity of practical reason / Stephen L. White
Part V: Epistemology and normativity
Truth as convenient friction / Huw Price
Exchange on "truth as convenient friction" / Richard Rorty and Huw Price
Two directions for analytic kantianism: naturalism and idealism / Paul Redding
Part VI: Naturalism and human nature
How to be naturalistic without being simplistic in the study of human nature / John Dupre
Dewey, continuity, and McDowell / Peter Godfrey-Smith
Wittgenstein and naturalism / Marie McGinn.

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