Naturalism and normativity / [edited by] Mario De Caro and David Macarthur.

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 i...

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Other Authors: De Caro, Mario, Macarthur, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy.
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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.