03351nam 2200505Ia 450 991082711890332120200520144314.00-231-50887-5(CKB)2560000000050751(EBL)895087(OCoLC)664802793(MiAaPQ)EBC895087(EXLCZ)99256000000005075120091215d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNaturalism and normativity /edited by Mario De Caro and David MacarthurNew York Columbia University Press20101 online resource (378 p.)Columbia themes in philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13467-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity; Part I: Conceptual and Historical Background; 1: The Wider Significance of Naturalism a Genealogical Essay (Akeel Bilgrami); 2: Naturalism and Quietism (Richard Rorty); 3: Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?(Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini); Part II: Philosophy and the Natural Sciences; 4: Science and Philosophy (Hilary Putnam); 5: Why Scientific Realism May Invite Relativism (Carol Rovane); Part III: Philosophy and the Human Sciences; 6: Taking the Human Sciences Seriously (David Macarthur)7: Reasons and Causes Revisited (Peter Menzies)Part IV: Meta-Ethics and Normativity; 8: Metaphysics and Morals (T. M . Scanlon); 9: The Naturalist Gap in Ethics (Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson); 10: Phenomenology and the Normativity of Practical Reason (Stephen L. White); Part V: Epistemology and Normativity; 11: Truth as Convenient Friction (Huw Price); 12: Exchange on "Truth as Convenient Friction" (Richard Rorty and Huw Price); 13: Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism Naturalism and Idealism (Paul Redding); Part VI: Naturalism and Human Nature14: How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature (John Dupré)15: Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell (Peter Godfrey-Smith); 16: Wittgenstein and Naturalism (Marie McGinn); Contributors; IndexNormativity 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 tColumbia themes in philosophy.NaturalismNormativity (Ethics)Naturalism.Normativity (Ethics)146De Caro Mario290682Macarthur David1597061MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827118903321Naturalism and Normativity3918681UNINA