Nature and Normativity - Mark Okrent

Nature and Normativity

Biology, Teleology, and Meaning

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Buch | Softcover
238 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-88629-5 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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 in the language of physics on the other.
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.

Mark Okrent is Professor of Philosophy at Bates College, USA. He is the author of two books, Heidegger’s Pragmatism: Understanding, Being, and the Critique of Metaphysics (1988) and Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality (2007). He has also published on a wide range of topics, including intentionality, teleology, Pragmatism, Heidegger, Davidson, Kant, and Hegel, among others.

1. Norms and the Response to Norms

2. Life and Teleology

3. Building an Instrumentally Rational Agent

4. Social Animals and Non-Instrumental Norms

5. Distinctive Human Abilities: Practical Reason and Responding to Types

6. Language and the Ability to Criticize Norms

7. Warrant and Truth

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-367-88629-4 / 0367886294
ISBN-13 978-0-367-88629-5 / 9780367886295
Zustand Neuware
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