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Nature and Normativity - Biology, Teleology, and Meaning (Paperback)
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Nature and Normativity - Biology, Teleology, and Meaning (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of
norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been
articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought,
on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other.
Rather, if we concentrate on the facts that speaking and thinking
are activities of organic agents, then the problem of the place of
the normative in nature becomes refocused on three related
questions. First, is there a sense in which biological processes
and the behavior of organisms can be legitimately subject to
normative evaluation? Second, is there some sense in which, in
addition to having ordinary causal explanations, organic phenomena
can also legitimately be seen to happen because they should happen
in that way, in some naturalistically comprehensible sense of
'should', or that organic phenomena happen in order to achieve some
result, because that result should occur? And third, is it possible
to naturalistically understand how human thought and language can
be legitimately seen as the normatively evaluable behavior of a
particular species of organism, behavior that occurs in order to
satisfy some class of norms? This book develops, articulates, and
defends positive answers to each of these questions.
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