Naturalism and normativity
by
 
De Caro, Mario.

Title
Naturalism and normativity

Author
De Caro, Mario.

ISBN
9780231508872

Publication Information
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.

Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 368 pages).

Series
Columbia themes in philosophy
 
Columbia themes in philosophy.

Abstract
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 t.

Subject Term
Naturalism.
 
Normativity (Ethics)

Added Author
De Caro, Mario.
 
Macarthur, David.

Electronic Access
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/deca13466


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