Naturalism, normativity & explanation / Robert Audi.

This book critically examines philosophical naturalism, evaluates the prospects for naturalizing such normative properties as being a reason, and proposes a theory of action-explanation. This theory accommodates an explanatory role for both psychological properties, such as intention, and normative...

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Main Author: Audi, Robert, 1941- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a Preface and Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Naturalism as a Philosophical and Scient; I. The Historical and Philosophical Cont; II. Scientific Naturalism; III. Ontological Pluralism; IV. Non-Reductive Naturalism; V. Realist and Anti-Realist Naturalisms; VI. Scientific Naturalism and Causal Clo; Chapter 2. The Nature of Normativity and the Projec; I.A Cross-Disciplinary Conception of No; II. Philosophical Motivation for Natural; III. Naturalization Projects in Ethics; IV. The Naturalization of Practical Reas; V. Moral Perception as a Natural Phenome. 
505 8 |a VI. Outline of a General Account of NormChapter 3. Moral Properties: Some Epistemological, ; I. Moral Properties and Their Normativit; II. The Non-Moral Grounds of the Moral: ; III. The Epistemology of Moral Propertie; IV. The Problem of Normative Defeasibili; V. Are Moral Properties Natural (or Natu; Chapter 4. The Theory of Action-Explanation: Some D; I. Targets of Explanation; II. Epistemological, Ontological, and Pr; III. Explanations Why; IV. Explanations of Human Behavior; V. The Problem of Mental Causation; VI. Causes, Causal Explainers, and Menta; Chapter 5. A Priori Explanation. 
505 8 |a I. Framing the Issue: Preliminary ConsidII. A Priori Explanation, Proof, and The; III. A Priori Elements in Empirical Expl; IV. Explanation and Understanding; V. Explanation of Normative Propositions; VI. Explanatory Ultimacy and the Groundi; VII. Conclusion; References; Index. 
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