Truth And Normativity

Author : Mr Iain Brassington
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409485223

Get Book

Truth and Normativity by Mr Iain Brassington Pdf

Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. At the same time, the commonsense arguments in favour of something like a modern democratic polis could be co-opted by the politically violent as exculpatory. In exploring this prima facie problem and in the course of trying to substantiate the commonsense distinction, Brassington identifies a tension between the primary values of truth and normativity in the standard accounts of moral theory which he ultimately resolves by adopting lines of thought suggested by Martin Heidegger and concluding that the problem with mainstream moral philosophy is that, in a sense, it tries too hard.

Author : Iain Brassington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351877459

Get Book

Truth and Normativity by Iain Brassington Pdf

Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. At the same time, the commonsense arguments in favour of something like a modern democratic polis could be co-opted by the politically violent as exculpatory. In exploring this prima facie problem and in the course of trying to substantiate the commonsense distinction, Brassington identifies a tension between the primary values of truth and normativity in the standard accounts of moral theory which he ultimately resolves by adopting lines of thought suggested by Martin Heidegger and concluding that the problem with mainstream moral philosophy is that, in a sense, it tries too hard.

Author : Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351782555

Get Book

Autonomy and Normativity by Richard Dien Winfield Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Autonomy and Normativity explores central topics in current philosophical debate, challenging the prevailing post-modern dogma that theory, practice and art are captive to contingent historical foundations by showing how foundational dilemmas are overcome once validity is recognized to reside in self-determination. Through constructive arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Autonomy and Normativity demonstrates how truth, right and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Presenting a compact, yet comprehensive statement of a powerful and provocative alternative to the reigning orthodoxies of current philosophical debate, Richard Winfield employs Hegelian techniques and focus to object to opponents, and presents a radical and systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including Kant, Rawls, Husserl, Habermas and others. The ramifications for the legitimation of modernity are thoroughly explored, in conjunction with an analysis of the fate of theory, practice and art in the modern world. This book offers an invaluable resource for students of both analytic and continental philosophical traditions, and related areas of law, social theory and aesthetics.

Author : Filippo Ferrari
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793622686

Get Book

Truth and Norms by Filippo Ferrari Pdf

Truth and Norms: Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative Disagreements engages three philosophical topics and the relationships among them. Filippo Ferrari first contributes to the debate on the nature and normative significance of disagreement, especially in relation to evaluative judgements such as judgements about basic taste, refined aesthetics, and moral matters. Second, he addresses the issue of epistemic normativity, focusing in particular on the normative function(s) that truth exerts on judgements. Third, he contributes to the debate on truth—more specifically, which account of the nature of truth best accommodates the norms relating judgements and truth. This book develops and defends a novel pluralistic picture of the normativity of truth: normative alethic pluralism (NAP). At the core of NAP is the idea that truth exerts different normative functions in relation to different areas of inquiry. Ferrari argues that this picture of the normativity of truth offers the best explanation of the variable normative significance that disagreement exhibits in relation to different subject matters—from a rather shallow normative impact in the case of disagreement about taste, to a normatively more substantive significance in relation to moral judgements. Last, Ferrari defends the view that NAP does not require a commitment to truth pluralism, since it is fully compatible with a somewhat refined version of minimalism about truth.

Author : Patrick Bondy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315412511

Get Book

Epistemic Rationality and Epistemic Normativity by Patrick Bondy Pdf

The aim of this book is to answer two important questions about the issue of normativity in epistemology: Why are epistemic reasons evidential and what makes epistemic reasons and rationality normative? Bondy's argument proceeds on the assumption that epistemic rationality goes hand in hand with basing beliefs on good evidence. The opening chapters defend a mental-state ontology of reasons, a deflationary account of how kinds of reasons are distinguished, and a deliberative guidance constraint on normative reasons. They also argue in favor of doxastic voluntarism—the view that beliefs are subject to our direct voluntary control—and embrace the controversial view that voluntarism bears directly on the question of what kinds of things count as reasons for believing. The final three chapters of the book feature a noteworthy critique of the instrumental conception of the nature of epistemic rationality, as well as a defense of the instrumental normativity of epistemic rationality. The final chapter defends the view that epistemic reasons and rationality are normative for us when we have normative reason to get to the truth with respect to some proposition, and it provides a response to the swamping problem for monistic accounts of value.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 882290043X

Get Book

Verità, immagine, normativita by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Gross,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198722199

Get Book

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.

Author : Sami Pihlström
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009051507

Get Book

Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age by Sami Pihlström Pdf

It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of religion, Pihlström argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth. James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.

Author : W. Slob
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401004763

Get Book

Dialogical Rhetoric by W. Slob Pdf

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it. In a systematic survey this study investigates what is at stake when truth is given up. A historical overview shows how the current problem of truth came about, and suggests ways to overcome rather than to repair the problem. A key issue resulting from the loss of truth is the lack of normativity. Truth provided an alternative understanding of normativity. Elaborating on the `dialectical shift' in logic, a dialogico-rhetorical understanding of normativity is presented. Rather than requiring truth, agreement, or rationality, dialogico-rhetorical normativity is the result of a balance of particular standards. This type of normativity is shaped within discussions - by advancing and accepting arguments - and is not located in sets of predetermined rules. The result is a `small' but strong form of normativity. If this understanding of normativity is viable, one of the central problems of contemporary philosophy, the problem of incommensurability, can be seen in a different light. As a result, truth reappears again. Surviving the postmodern criticisms, it is a matter of accountability rather than of description.

Author : Stephen P. Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745654539

Get Book

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.

Author : Gross Steven,Nicholas Tebben,Michael Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198722192

Get Book

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

Author : Rosa Maria Calcaterra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004393837

Get Book

Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty by Rosa Maria Calcaterra Pdf

Contingentism depicts normativity as one of our human effective possibilities rather than as a metaphysical bottleneck which we should necessary fulfill. The book is a critical survey of Richard McKay Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism”, in the light of various theoretical arguments as well as of his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within its practice.

Author : Michael P. Wolf,Jeremy Randel Koons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319336879

Get Book

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 : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107047945

Get Book

The Sources of Normativity by Christine M. Korsgaard Pdf

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.

Author : Allan Gibbard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199646074

Get Book

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.