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Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Mark Risjord
Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Book PDF

Author : Mark Risjord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317386025

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Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Mark Risjord Pdf

Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation necessitates an appeal to norms, and if so, whether appeals to normativity can be rendered "scientific." This collection brings together contributions from a diverse group of philosophers who explore a broad but thematically unified set of questions, many of which stem from an ongoing debate between Stephen Turner and Joseph Rouse (both contributors to this volume) on the role of naturalism in the philosophy of the social sciences. Informed by recent developments in both philosophy and the social sciences, this volume will set the benchmark for contemporary discussions about normativity and naturalism. This collection will be relevant to philosophers of social science, philosophers in interested in the rule following and metaphysics of normativity, and theoretically oriented social scientists.

Naturalism and Normativity

Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
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Author : Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231508872

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Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro,David Macarthur Pdf

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. Essays explore philosophical options for understanding normativity in the space between scientific naturalism and Platonic supernaturalism. They articulate a liberal conception of philosophy that is neither reducible to the sciences nor completely independent of them yet one that maintains the right to call itself naturalism. Contributors think in new ways about the relations among the scientific worldview, our experience of norms and values, and our movements in the space of reason. Detailed discussions include the relationship between philosophy and science, physicalism and ontological pluralism, the realm of the ordinary, objectivity and subjectivity, truth and justification, and the liberal naturalisms of Donald Davidson, John Dewey, John McDowell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity

Christopher Janaway,Simon Robertson
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Author : Christopher Janaway,Simon Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
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Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199583676

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Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity by Christopher Janaway,Simon Robertson Pdf

This volume comprises ten original essays on Nietzsche, one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. An international team of experts clarify Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive, ethical and meta-ethical, and connect his philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in and about ethics, normativity, and value.

Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity

Hilary Putnam
Naturalism Realism and Normativity Book PDF

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674969131

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Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity by Hilary Putnam Pdf

Hilary Putnam’s writings have shaped fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of mind. This volume reflects his latest thinking on how to articulate a theory of naturalism which acknowledges that normative phenomena form an ineluctable part of human experience.

Normativity and Naturalism

Peter Schaber
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Author : Peter Schaber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110327694

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Normativity and Naturalism by Peter Schaber Pdf

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore's own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts could not be natural has gained prominence: No natural account can be given of normativity. This collection contains original essays from both sides of the debate. Representing a wide range of metaethical views, the authors develop diverse accounts of normativity and discuss what it means for a concept to be natural. Contributions are by Norbert Anwander, David Copp, Neil Roughley, Peter Schaber, Thomas Schmidt, Tatjana Tarkian, and Theo van Willigenburg.

Naturalism and Normativity

Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
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Author : Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231134675

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Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro,David Macarthur Pdf

Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For scientific naturalists the moral is reached by reducing the normative to the nonnormative. For orthodox nonnaturalists the moral is found in the transcendent realm of norms. This book challenges both sides of this debate.

Naturalism in Question

Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
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Author : Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674030411

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Naturalism in Question by Mario De Caro,David Macarthur Pdf

Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the "naturalist" credos that philosophy is continuous with science, and that the natural sciences provide a complete account of all that exists--whether human or nonhuman. The new faith says science, not man, is the measure of all things. However, there is a growing skepticism about the adequacy of this complacent orthodoxy. This volume presents a group of leading thinkers who criticize scientific naturalism not in the name of some form of supernaturalism, but in order to defend a more inclusive or liberal naturalism. The many prominent Anglo-American philosophers appearing in this book--Akeel Bilgrami, Stanley Cavell, Donald Davidson, John DuprŽ, Jennifer Hornsby, Erin Kelly, John McDowell, Huw Price, Hilary Putnam, Carol Rovane, Barry Stroud, and Stephen White--do not march in lockstep, yet their contributions demonstrate mutual affinities and various unifying themes. Instead of attempting to force human nature into a restricted scientific image of the world, these papers represent an attempt to place human nature at the center of renewed--but still scientifically respectful--conceptions of philosophy and nature.

The Normative and the Natural

Michael P. Wolf,Jeremy Randel Koons
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Author : Michael P. Wolf,Jeremy Randel Koons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319336879

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The Normative and the Natural by Michael P. Wolf,Jeremy Randel Koons Pdf

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.

Wilfrid Sellars

James O'Shea
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Author : James O'Shea
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509500864

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Wilfrid Sellars by James O'Shea Pdf

The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and scientific images, have become standard philosophical terms. Often, however, recent uses of these terms do not reflect the richness or the true sense of Sellars original ideas. This book gets to the heart of Sellars philosophy and provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to his lifes work. The book is structured around what Sellars himself regarded as the philosophers overarching task: to achieve a coherent vision of reality that will finally overcome the continuing clashes between the world as common sense takes it to be and the world as science reveals it to be. It provides a clear analysis of Sellars groundbreaking philosophy of mind, his novel theory of consciousness, his defense of scientific realism, and his thoroughgoing naturalism with a normative turn. Providing a lively examination of Sellars work through the central problem of what it means to be a human being in a scientific world, this book will be a valuable resource for all students of philosophy.

Meaning Without Representation

Steven Gross,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams
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Author : Steven Gross,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198722199

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Meaning Without Representation by Steven Gross,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams Pdf

Challenges the idea that representation of how the world is should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language. Examines deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation.

Explaining the Normative

Stephen P. Turner
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Author : Stephen P. Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745654539

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Explaining the Normative by Stephen P. Turner Pdf

Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed to this idea, admit that the idea of a non-causal normative realm and a body of normative objects is spooky. Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how this pattern depends on circularities, assumptions about the unique correctness of preferred descriptions, problematic transcendental arguments, and regress arguments that end in mysteries. The book considers in detail a paradigm case: legal normativity as constructed by Hans Kelsen. This case exemplifies the problems with normativist arguments. But it also shows how normativism was constructed as an alternative to ordinary social science explanation. The normativist argument is that social science explanations themselves are forced to rely on normative conceptsÑminimally, on normative rationality and on a normative view of ‘concepts' themselves. Empathic understanding of the reasoning and meanings of others, however, can solve the regress problems about meaning and rationality that are central to the appeal of normativism. This account has no need for a parallel normative world, and has a surprising and revealing lineage in the history of philosophy, as well as a basis in neuroscience.

Naturalism, Normativity & Explanation

Robert Audi
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Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Explanation
ISBN : IND:30000151488990

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Naturalism, Normativity & Explanation by Robert Audi Pdf

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 properties, such as having an obligation or being intrinsically good. The overall project requires distinguishing philosophical from methodological naturalism, arguing for the possibility of a scientifically informed epistemology that is not committed to the former, and freeing the theory of action-explanation from dependence on the reducibility of the mental to the physical. The project also requires distinguishing explanatory power from causal power. Explanations - at least of the kinds central in both science and everyday life - are conceived as constitutively aimed at yielding understanding. The book sketches a view of understanding that clarifies the nature of explanation, and, partly in the light of this relation, it provides a broad account of causal power on which psychological properties can possess it without being reducible to physical properties. The book concludes with an account of how, especially in the normative domain, explanations can be a priori. They may use a priori generalizations to provide understanding of what they explain, and they may clarify a priori propositions, or both. They may achieve these aims not only in logic and pure mathematics, but also in the realm of moral and other normative phenomena. The overall result is to show how philosophical understanding of both natural and normative phenomena is possible through integration with a scientific habit of mind that does not require a narrow empiricism in epistemology or a reductive naturalism in metaphysics or the theory of explanation. [Subject: Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Action Theory, Psychology]

Beyond Description

Marcin Milkowski,Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
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Author : Marcin Milkowski,Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
Publisher : Texts in Philosophy
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1904987915

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Beyond Description by Marcin Milkowski,Konrad Talmont-Kaminski Pdf

The contributors to this volume engage with issues of normativity within naturalised philosophy. The issues are critical to naturalism as most traditional notions in philosophy, such as knowledge, justification or representation, are said to involve normativity. Some of the contributors pursue the question of the correct place of normativity within a naturalised ontology, with emergentist and eliminativist answers offered on neighbouring pages. Others seek to justify particular norms within a naturalised framework, the more surprising ones including naturalist takes on the a priori and intuitions. Finally, yet others examine concrete examples of the application of norms within particular epistemic endeavours, such as psychopathology and design. The overall picture is that of an intimate engagement with issues of normativity on the part of naturalist philosophers - questioning some of the fundamentals at the same time as they try to work out many of the details.

Meaning and Normativity

Allan Gibbard
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Author : Allan Gibbard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199646074

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Meaning and Normativity by Allan Gibbard Pdf

The concepts of meaning and mental content resist naturalistic analysis. This is because they are normative: they depend on ideas of how things ought to be. Allan Gibbard offers an expressivist explanation of these 'oughts': he borrows devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the philosophy of language and thought.

New Waves in Metaethics

Michael S. Brady
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Author : Michael S. Brady
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230251625

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New Waves in Metaethics by Michael S. Brady Pdf

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.