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Wolf, Michael P.; Koons, Jeremy Randel

 
9783319815732: The Normative and the Natural
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ISBN 10: 3319815733 ISBN 13: 9783319815732
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Sinopsis

Drawing on a rich pragmatist tradition, this book offers an account of the different kinds of ‘oughts’, or varieties of normativity, that we are subject to contends that there is no conflict between normativity and the world as science describes it.  The authors argue that normative claims aim to evaluate, to urge us to do or not do something, and to tell us how a state of affairs ought to be. These claims articulate forms of action-guidance that are different in kind from descriptive claims, with a wholly distinct practical and expressive character. This account suggests that there are no normative facts, and so nothing that needs any troublesome shoehorning into a scientific account of the world. This work explains that nevertheless, normative claims are constrained by the world, and answerable to reason and argumentation, in a way that makes them truth-apt and objective.

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Michael P. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Washington and Jefferson College, US.  He has published extensively in the philosophy of language and epistemology.

Jeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.  He has published widely in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, and other areas.

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Drawing on a rich pragmatist tradition, this book offers an account of the different kinds of oughts , or varieties of normativity, that we are subject to contends that there is no conflict between normativity and the world as science describes it.  The authors argue that normative claims aim to evaluate, to urge us to do or not do something, and to tell us how a state of affairs ought to be. These claims articulate forms of action-guidance that are different in kind from descriptive claims, with a wholly distinct practical and expressive character. This account suggests that there are no normative facts, and so nothing that needs any troublesome shoehorning into a scientific account of the world. This work explains that nevertheless, normative claims are constrained by the world, and answerable to reason and argumentation, in a way that makes them truth-apt and objective.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Año de publicación
2018
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
3319815733
ISBN 13 
9783319815732
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