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Informationen zum Autor Mario De Caro is associate professor of moral philosophy at University of Rome 3 and editor of Philosophy in an Age of Science, as well as a forthcoming collection of essays by Hilary Putnam. David Macarthur is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sydney and coeditor, with Mario De Caro, of Naturalism in Question. Klappentext Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently or that we ought to keep our promises or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral are we to draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? For scientific naturalists the moral is reached by reducing the normative to the nonnormative. For orthodox nonnaturalists the moral is found in the transcendent realm of norms. Naturalism and Normativity challenges both sides of this debate. Essays explore philosophical options for understanding normativity within the overlooked territory between orthodox scientific naturalism and Platonistic supernaturalism Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity, by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur Part I. Conceptual and Historical Background 1.The Wider Significance of Naturalism: A Genealogical Essay, by Akeel Bilgrami 2. Naturalism and Quietism, by Richard Rorty 3. Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?, by Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini Part II. Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 4. Science and Philosophy, by Hilary Putnam 5. Why Scientific Realism May Invite Relativism, by Carol Rovane Part III. Philosophy and the Human Sciences 6. Taking the Human Sciences Seriously, by David Macarthur 7. Reasons and Causes Revisited, by Peter Menzies Part IV. Meta-ethics and Normativity 8. Metaphysics and Morals, by T. M. Scanlon 9. The Naturalist Gap in Ethics, by Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson 10. Phenomenology and the Normativity of Practical Reason, by Stephen L. White Part V. Epistemology and Normativity 11. Truth as Convenient Friction, by Huw Price 12. Exchange on "Truth as Convenient Friction", by Richard Rorty and Huw Price 13. Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism: Naturalism and Idealism, by Paul Redding Part VI. Naturalism and Human Nature 14. How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature, by John Dupré 15. Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell, by Peter Godfrey-Smith 16. Wittgenstein and Naturalism, by Marie McGinn List of Contributors Index...
