Judith Jarvis Thomson's Normativity is a study of normative
thought. She brings out that normative thought is not restricted to
moral thought. Normative judgments divide into two sub-kinds, the
evaluative and the directive; but the sub-kinds are larger than is
commonly appreciated. Evaluative judgments include the judgments
that such and such is a good umbrella, that Alfred is a witty
comedian, and that Bert answered Carol's question correctly, as
well as the judgment that David is a good human being. Directive
judgments include the judgment that a toaster should toast evenly,
that Edward ought to get a haircut, and that Frances must move her
rook, as well as the judgment that George ought to be kind to his
little brother. Thomson describes how judgments of these two
sub-kinds interconnect and what makes them true when they are true.
Given the extensiveness of the two sub-kinds of normative judgment,
our everyday thinking is rich in normativity, and moreover, there
is no gap between normative and factual thought. The widespread
suspicion of the normative is therefore in large measure due to
nothing deeper than an excessively narrow conception of what counts
as a normative judgment.
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