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Naturalism and Normativity
Mario de Caro (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): De Caro, Mario; Macarthur, David. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 this debate. ... Read more
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 this debate. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134675
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V9780231134675
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About Mario de Caro (Ed.)
Mario De Caro is associate professor of moral philosophy at University of Rome 3. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Tufts University. He has edited several anthologies, including, with David Macarthur, Philosophy in an Age of Science, two new volumes of essays by Hilary Putnam. David Macarthur is senior lecturer in philosophy at ... Read more
Reviews for Naturalism and Normativity
There is, in sum, much food for thought in De Caro and Macarthur's latest offering, and many of the papers will no doubt figure prominently in future discussions of the scope and limits of naturalism
Jonathan Knowles Philosophy in Review A valuable 'contribution to a fruitful controversy' and will help shape how the relation between naturalism and normativity can ... Read more
Jonathan Knowles Philosophy in Review A valuable 'contribution to a fruitful controversy' and will help shape how the relation between naturalism and normativity can ... Read more