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Normative Bedrock - Response-Dependence, Rationality, and Reasons (Hardcover)
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Normative Bedrock - Response-Dependence, Rationality, and Reasons (Hardcover)
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Joshua Gert presents an original and ambitious theory of the
normative. Expressivism and non-reductive realism represent two
very widely separated poles in contemporary discussions of
normativity. But the domain of the normative is both large and
diverse; it includes, for example, the harmful, the fun, the
beautiful, the wrong, and the rational. It would be extremely
surprising if either expressivism or non-reductive realism managed
to capture all--or even the most important--phenomena associated
with all of these notions. Normative Bedrock defends a
response-dependent account of the normative that accommodates the
kind of variation in response that some non-reductive realists
downplay or ignore, but that also allows for the sort of
straightforward talk of normative properties, normative truth, and
substantive normative disagreement that expressivists have had a
hard time respecting.
One of the distinctive features of Gert's approach is his reliance,
throughout, on an analogy between color properties and normative
properties. He argues that the appropriate response to a given
instance of a normative property may often depend significantly on
the perspective one takes on that instance: for example, whether
one views it as past or future. Another distinctive feature of
Normative Bedrock is its focus on the basic normative property of
practical irrationality, rather than on the notion of a normative
reason or the notion of the good. This simple shift of focus allow
for a more satisfying account of the link between reasons and
motivation, and helps to explain why and how some reasons can
justify far more than they can require, and why we therefore need
two strength values to characterize the normative capacities of
practical reasons.
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