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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy - Nature and Norms in Thought (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy - Nature and Norms in Thought (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29
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Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to
the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception
goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary
epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a
collection of new essays by leading scholars in early modern
philosophy and specialists in contemporary philosophy, this volume
goes beyond the point where nature and normativity came apart, and
challenges the well-established opposition between these all too
neatly separated realms. It examines how the mind's embeddedness in
nature can be conceived as a starting point for uncovering the
links between naturally and conventionally determined standards
governing an agent's epistemic and moral engagement with the world.
The original essays are grouped in two parts. The first part
focuses on specific aspects of theories of perception, thought
formation and judgment. It gestures towards an account of
normativity that regards linguistic conventions and natural
constraints as jointly setting the scene for the mind's ability to
conceptualise its experiences. The second part of the book asks
what the norms of desirable epistemic and moral practices are. Key
to this approach is an examination of human beings as parts of
nature, who act as natural causes and are determined by their
sensibilities and sentiments. Each part concludes with a chapter
that integrates features of the historical debate into the
contemporary context.
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