NORMATIVE NATURALISM ON ITS OWN TERMS

• Authors: Väyrynen Pekka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Normative naturalism is primarily a metaphysical doctrine: there are normative facts and properties, and this fall into the class of natural facts and properties. Many objections to naturalism rely on additional assumptions about language or thought, but often without adequate consideration of just how normative properties would have to figure in our thought and talk if naturalism were true. In the first part of the paper, I explain why naturalists needn’t think that normative properties can be represented or ascribed in wholly non-normative terms. If so, certain prominent objections to normative naturalism fail. In the second part, I consider the objection that normative properties are “just too different” from (other) natural properties to themselves be natural properties. I argue that naturalists have no distinctive trouble making sense of thought and talk involving forms of “genuine” or “authoritative” normativity which can drive a non-question-begging form of the objection.

Keywords

EN

AUTHORITATIVE NORMATIVITY; NORMATIVE NATURALISM; PRACTICAL NORMATIVITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 505 – 530

Contributors

author

Väyrynen Pekka

• University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28302