Indeterminacy and Normativity
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00293-6
Abstract: This paper develops and defends the view that substantively normative uses of words like “good”, “right” and “ought” (e.g. moral uses) are irresolvably indeterminate: any single case of application is like a borderline case for… read more here.
Keywords: indeterminacy normativity; vague indeterminate; normativity;
Epistemic Blame and the Normativity of Evidence
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-021-00430-9
Abstract: The normative force of evidence can seem puzzling. It seems that having conclusive evidence for a proposition does not, by itself, make it true that one ought to believe the proposition. But spelling out the… read more here.
Keywords: evidence; blame normativity; normativity evidence; normativity ... See more keywords
From Explanation to Understanding: Normativity Lost?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-019-09477-3
Abstract: In recent years, scientific understanding has become a focus of attention in philosophy of science. Since understanding is typically associated with the pragmatic and psychological dimensions of explanation, shifting the focus from explanation to understanding… read more here.
Keywords: explanation understanding; philosophy science; philosophy; scientific understanding ... See more keywords
Reflective Situated Normativity
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-021-01605-4
Abstract: Situated normativity is the ability of skilled individuals to distinguish better from worse, adequate from inadequate, appropriate from inappropriate, or correct from incorrect in the context of a particular situation. Situated normativity consists in a… read more here.
Keywords: normativity; situated normativity; concept situated; reflective forms ... See more keywords
On the spatiotemporal extensiveness of sense-making: ultrafast cognition and the historicity of normativity
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02240-7
Abstract: The enactive approach conceives of cognition as acts of sense-making. A requirement of sense-making is adaptivity, i.e., the agent’s capacity to actively monitor and regulate its own trajectories with respect to its viability constraints. However,… read more here.
Keywords: sense; ultrafast cognition; sense making; normativity ... See more keywords
The early development of the normative mind.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.011
Abstract: Normativity is pervasive in everyday human social interactions and perhaps even constitutive of human forms of group and societal living. During the past decade, there has been increased interest in the ontogeny of normativity and… read more here.
Keywords: early development; normative mind; normativity; development normative ... See more keywords
The Perils of Rejecting the Parity Argument
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DOI: 10.1017/s0031819123000037
Abstract: Abstract Many moral error theorists reject moral realism on the grounds that moral realism implies the existence of categorical normativity, yet categorical normativity does not exist. Call this the Metaphysical Argument. In response, some moral… read more here.
Keywords: parity argument; moral error; parity; normativity ... See more keywords
Normative language policy: ethics, politics, principles
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DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1632513
Abstract: This book is a welcome addition to the literature on language policy. The authors are mainly concerned with providing an axiological account of normativity in language, using the province of Québec as a case study… read more here.
Keywords: policy; chapter; language policy; philosophy ... See more keywords
Ginsborg on a Kantian-Brandomian View of Concepts
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DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2019.1705874
Abstract: ABSTRACT According to a Kantian-Brandomian view of concepts, we can understand concepts in terms of norms or rules that bind those who apply them, and the use of a concept requires that the concept-user be… read more here.
Keywords: ginsborg kantian; view; view concepts; brandomian view ... See more keywords
Clarifying Core Elements of New Testament Normativity
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DOI: 10.1177/09539468221131406
Abstract: An intriguing though little noticed trend within moral theology over the last half century or so is the move towards re-conceptualising moral norms previously considered mandatory into ideals. The ideal-normative turn has been taken by… read more here.
Keywords: testament normativity; core elements; normativity; elements new ... See more keywords
Animal norms: an investigation of normativity in the non-human social world
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DOI: 10.1177/1743872118800008
Abstract: A human being is not only a social and teleological animal, she/he is also a nomic animal, a creature that can act in light of rules. Starting from this new image of humankind, the author… read more here.
Keywords: animal norms; non human; human social; investigation normativity ... See more keywords