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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 100 |
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Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 100.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Norms and the Response to Norms -- 1. A Brief Historical Introduction to the Varieties of Norms -- 2. Kant on What It Is to Respond to a Norm -- 3. Kant, and Kantians, on the Content and Nature of Norms -- 4. Assessment -- 2 Life and Teleology -- 1. The Perspective of the Knower -- 2. The Perspective of the Organism -- 3. Justifying a Vocabulary: Organisms and Self-Maintenance -- 4. Teleological Description and Organic Norms -- 5. On Transcendental Philosophy |
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6. Teleological Explanation, Naturalism, and Evolution7. Organic Norms and Organic Responsiveness to Norms -- 8. Transition -- 3 Building an Instrumentally Rational Agent -- 1. Introduction: Instrumentally Rational Agents -- 2. Explanation and Responsiveness to Norms -- 3. Responding to Norms: Teleology and Natural Selection -- 4. Responding to Norms: Associative Learning -- 5. Responding to Norms: Learning Errors -- 6. Responding to Norms: Uniqueness, Beliefs, and Desires -- 7. Responding to Norms: Rational Coherence |
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8. Responding to Norms: Acting Because of Instrumental Reasons4 Social Animals and Non-Instrumental Norms -- 1. Recap: Instrumental Norms and Responsiveness to Instrumental Norms -- 2. A Different Kind of Norm; A Different Kind of Reason -- 3. The Problem of Understanding â#x80;#x98;Oughtsâ#x80;#x99; -- 4. A Methodological Fork -- 5. Social Animals -- 6. A New Kind of Social Animal -- 5 Human Practices and Responsiveness to Two-Dimensional Practical Norms -- 1. Human Practices -- 2. The Toolbox -- 3. Being a Carpenter |
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4. Diversity of Practices and the Conditions on Responsiveness to Two-Dimensional Norms5. Responding to Individuals; Responding to Types -- 6. Conflicts Between the Two Dimensions of Human Norms -- 7. The Problem of Legitimacy -- 6 Language as a Tool -- 1. The Problem -- 2. The Conditions on the Emergence of Linguistic Displacement -- A. The Normative Resources of Our Ancestors -- B. The Normative Origins of Human Linguistic Displacement -- 3. Properties and Statements -- 4. Truth; Falsity -- 5. Transition -- 7 Language, Warranted Assertibility, and Truth |
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1. Introduction2. From Recognitives to Inferences -- 3. The Infrastructure of Language -- 4. Metalinguistic Language and Talk About Kinds -- 5. Truth, Warranted Assertibility, and the Rational Assessment of Social Practices -- 6. A Very Brief Concluding Unscientific Postscript -- Bibliography |
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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."--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index |
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Philosophy of nature.
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Biological control systems -- Miscellanea
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Normativity (Ethics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Biological control systems
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Normativity (Ethics)
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Philosophy of nature
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Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315276700 |
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1315276704 |
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9781351997157 |
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1351997157 |
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