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The Nature of Normativity (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Normativity (Hardcover)
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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 adequate
version of realism must answer these explanatory demands. However,
he seeks to show that these demands can be met -- in large part by
relying on a version of the idea, which has been much discussed in
recent work in the philosophy of mind, that the intentional is
normative -- that is, that there is no way of explaining the nature
of the various sorts of mental states that have intentional or
representational content (such as beliefs, judgments, desires,
decisions, and so on), without stating normative facts. On the
basis of this idea, Wedgwood provides a detailed systematic theory
that deals with the following three areas: the meaning of
statements about what ought to be; the nature of the facts stated
by these statements; and what justifies us in holding beliefs about
what ought to be.
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