Naturalism and normativity
By: edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur.
Contributors: De Caro, Mario.; Macarthur, David.
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780231134668; 9780231134675; 9780231508872
Subjects: Naturalism; Normativity (Ethics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Science, naturalism, and the problem of normativity / Mario De Caro and David Macarthur; title: Part I: Conceptual and historical background; title: The wider significance of naturalism : a genealogical essay / Akeel Bilgrami; title: Naturalism and quietism / Richard Rorty; title: Is liberal naturalism possible? / Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini; title: Part II: Philosophy and the natural sciences; title: Science and philosophy / Hilary Putnam; title: Why scientific realism may invite relativism / Carol Rovane; title: Part III: Philosophy and the human sciences; title: Taking the human sciences seriously / David Macarthur; title: Reasons and causes revisited / Peter Menzies; title: Part IV: Meta-ethics and normativity; title: Metaphysics and morals / T.M. Scanlon; title: The naturalist gap in ethics / Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson; title: Phenomenology and the normativity of practical reason / Stephen L. White; title: Part V: Epistemology and normativity; title: Truth as convenient friction / Huw Price; title: Exchange on "truth as convenient friction" / Richard Rorty and Huw Price; title: Two directions for analytic kantianism : naturalism and idealism / Paul Redding; title: Part VI: Naturalism and human nature; title: How to be naturalistic without being simplistic in the study of human nature / John Dupre; title: Dewey, continuity, and McDowell / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Wittgenstein and naturalism / Marie McGinn.