Naturalism and Normativity

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231134673
• ISBN13: 9780231134675
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher