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Pages: 241
Authors: Stephen P. Turner
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-10 - Publisher: Polity

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"Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, an
Explaining the Normative
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Stephen P. Turner
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-02 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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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,
Explaining Norms
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Geoffrey Brennan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book presents the concept of norms by four different philosophers. They discuss how norms emerge, persist, change, and how they serve to explain what we do
Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation n
The Nature of Normativity
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Ralph Wedgwood
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-19 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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The Nature of Normativity presents a complete theory about the nature of normative thought — that is, the sort of thought that is concerned with what ought to