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1st Edition

Normativity and the Problem of Representation

Edited By Matthew S. Bedke, Stefan Sciaraffa Copyright 2020
340 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge
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This book tackles questions which revolve around the representational purport (or lack thereof) of evaluative and normative claims. Claims about what we ought to do, what is best, what is justified, or simply what counts as a good reason for action—in other words, evaluative or normative claims—are familiar. But when we pause to ask what these claims mean and what we are doing when we use... Read more

1. Gripped by authority

Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons

2. Expressivism, meaning, and all that

Sebastian Köhler

3. Relativism and the expressivist bifurcation

Javier González de Prado Salas

4. Perspectival representation and fallacies in metaethics

Max Kölbel

5. Two nondescriptivist views of normative and evaluative statements

Matthew Chrisman

6. The unity of moral attitudes: recipe semantics and credal exaptation

Derek Shiller

7. Neo-pragmatism, morality, and the specification problem

Joshua Gert

8. Building bridges with words: an inferential account of ethical univocity

Mark Douglas Warren

9. Keeping track of what’s right

Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter

10. Solving the problem of creeping minimalism

Matthew Simpson

11. The real and the quasi-real: problems of distinction

Jamie Dreier

12. Representing ethical reality: a guide for worldly non-naturalists

William J. FitzPatrick

13. A semantic challenge to non-realist cognitivism

David Copp

14. Moral supervenience

Anandi Hattiangadi

15. Why conceptual competence won’t help the non-naturalist epistemologist

Preston J. Werner

Biography

Matthew S. Bedke is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He specializes in meta-ethics and meta-normativity and his work addresses topics such as the nature and psychology of normativity, debunking arguments in ethics, and motivational internalism.





Stefan Sciaraffa is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. He specializes in political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and metaethics. His work addresses the institutional structures, attitudes, behaviours, practical reasoning, and discourse that constitute relationships of political community.

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