中文参考译名:对规范性的来源
Author: Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: normativity, sources
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 052155960X
ISBN-13: 9780521559607

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies and examines four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers--voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy--and shows how Kant’s autonomy-based account emerges as a synthesis of the other three. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G.A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by

Author: Ralph Wedgwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: normativity, nature
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199251312
ISBN-13: 9780199251315

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 be the case, or what we ought to do or think. Ralph Wedgwood defends a kind of realism about the normative, according to which normative truths or facts are genuinely part of reality.Anti-realists often complain that realism gives rise to demands for explanation that it cannot adequately meet. What is the nature of these normative facts? How could we ever know them or even refer to them in language or thought? Wedgwood accepts that any a

Author: Ralph Wedgwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: normativity, nature
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0199568197
ISBN-13: 9780199568192

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 be the case, or what we ought to do or think. Ralph Wedgwood defends a kind of realism about the normative, according to which normative truths or facts are genuinely part of reality. Anti-realists often complain that realism gives rise to demands for explanation that it cannot adequately meet. What is the nature of these normative facts? How we could ever know them or even refer to them in language or thought? Wedgwood accepts that any a

Author: Bebhinn Donnelly
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: normativity, approach, law, natural
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2007-02
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754643131
ISBN-13: 9780754643135

Drawing on Natural Law theory, this volume argues that moral meaning resides in very basic, essential, natural facts about our existence as human beings. The author demonstrates the validity of this belief, its significance for normativity and illustrates how early natural lawyers implicitly suggested a sophisticated and largely successful reason-based solution to Hume’s ’is/ought’ problem. The work provides a new approach to Natural Law theory which addresses the problematic reliance on ’essential’ facts. "A Natural Approach to Normativity" presents an original p

Author: David Copp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: society, normativity, morality
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1995-05-11
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195078799
ISBN-13: 9780195078794

Moral claims not only purport to be true, they also purport to guide our choices. This book presents a new theory of normative judgment, the "standard-based theory," which offers a schematic account of the truth conditions of normative propositions of all kinds, including moral propositions and propositions about reasons. The heart of Copp’s approach to moral propositions is a theory of the circumstances under which corresponding moral standards qualify as justified, the "society-centered theory." He argues that because any society needs a social moral code in order to enable its membe

Author: David Copp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: society, normativity, morality
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-05-24
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195144015
ISBN-13: 9780195144017

Moral claims not only assume to be true, but they also guide our choices. This fascinating book presents a new theory of normative judgment, the "standard-based theory," which offers a schematic account of the truth conditions of normative propositions of all kinds, including moral propositions and propositions about reasons. Here, David Copp argues that because any society needs a social moral code in order to enable its members to live together successfully, and because it would be rational for a society to choose such a system, certain moral codes--and the standards they include--are justif

Author: Peter Schaber
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: philosophy, practical, naturalism, normativity
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3937202412
ISBN-13: 9783937202419

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G E Moore’s ’Principia Ethica’ (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore’s own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts could not be natural has gained prominence: No natural account can be given of normativity. This collection contains original essays from both sides of the debate. Representing a wide range of metaethical views, the authors develop diverse accounts of normativity and discuss what