Normativity And Naturalism In The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences

Author : Mark Risjord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
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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.

Author : Mark Risjord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317386032

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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.

Author : Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

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.

Author : Peter Schaber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.

Author : Michael P. Wolf,Jeremy Randel Koons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.

Author : Martin Hartmann,Arvi Särkelä
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
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Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781538174937

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Naturalism and Social Philosophy by Martin Hartmann,Arvi Särkelä Pdf

This book explores the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy, investigating the consequences of concepts such as "second nature" and "forms of life" analyse the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality and embodied and surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political science
ISBN : LCCN:2009930048

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Interpretive Political Science: Interpreting politics by Mark Bevir Pdf

Author : Ricardo F. Crespo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
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Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429842085

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The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences by Ricardo F. Crespo Pdf

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application. The above viewpoints are undertaken by different but related economic sciences, including statistics and economic history, positive economics, normative economics, and the ‘art of political economy’. Typically, positive economics has analysed economic phenomena using the second approach, causally explaining and often trying to predict the future evolution of the economy. It has not been concerned with the ends selected by the individual or society, taking them as given. However, various new economic currents have emerged during the last 40 years, and some of these do assign a fundamental role to ends within economics. This book argues that the field of positive economics should adapt to deal with the issues that arise from this. The text attempts to discern the nature of economic phenomena, introducing the different approaches and corresponding economic sciences. It goes on to analyse the epistemological characteristics of these in the subsequent chapters, as well as their disciplinary interrelations. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of the social sciences, philosophy, and the philosophy of economics. It will also be of interest to those researching political economy and the development of economic thought.

Author : Timothy Rutzou,George Steinmetz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787566040

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Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences by Timothy Rutzou,George Steinmetz Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”

Author : Raffaela Giovagnoli,Robert Lowe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031391132

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The Logic of Social Practices II by Raffaela Giovagnoli,Robert Lowe Pdf

This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices. Merging perspectives from various disciplines, including philosophy, biology, psychology and cognitive science, and economy, it discusses theoretical aspects of social behavior along with models to investigate them, and presenting key case studies as well. Further, it describes concepts related to habits, routines, and rituals and examines important features of human action, such as intentionality and choice, exploring the influence of specific social practices in different situations. Based on a workshop held on April 2022 at the World Congress on Universal Logic (UNILOG 22), in Crete, and including additional invited chapters, the book offers fresh insights into the fields of social practice and the cognitive, computational, and philosophical tools to understand them.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Author : Stephen P. Turner,Paul A. Roth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470701539

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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Stephen P. Turner,Paul A. Roth Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.

Author : Mario De Caro,David Macarthur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Author : Stephen P. Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.