Normative Reasons

Normative Reasons
Author: Artūrs Logins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316513777

The first accessible, detailed overview of the debates about normative reasons, developing a new theory based on why-questions.

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity
Author: Daniel Star
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199657882

'The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity' contains 44 commissioned chapters on a wide range of topics, and will appeal to readers with an interest in ethics or epistemology. A diverse selection of substantive positions are defended by leading proponents of the views in question, and provide broad coverage of the study of reasons and normativity across multiple philosophical subfields. In addition to focusing on reasons as part of the study of ethics and as part of the study of epistemology (as well as focusing on reasons as part of the study of the philosophy of language and as part of the study of the philosophy of mind), the Handbook covers recent developments concerning the nature of normativity in general. A number of the contributions to the Handbook explicitly address such "metanormative" issues, bridging subfields as they do so. --

Being Realistic about Reasons

Being Realistic about Reasons
Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199678480

Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T.M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defence of normative cognitivism - the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.

Giving Reasons

Giving Reasons
Author: David R. Morrow
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 162466623X

Giving Reasons prepares students to think independently, evaluate information, and reason clearly across disciplines. Accessible to students and effective for instructors, it provides plain-English exercises, helpful appendices, and a variety of online supplements.

Normative Reasons and Theism

Normative Reasons and Theism
Author: Gerald K. Harrison
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-06-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319907964

Normative reasons are reasons to do and believe things. Intellectual inquiry seems to presuppose their existence, for we cannot justifiably conclude that we exist; that there is an external world; and that there are better and worse ways of investigating it and behaving in it, unless there are reasons to do and believe such things. But just what in the world are normative reasons? In this book a case is made for believing normative reasons are favouring relations that have a single, external source, filling this significant gap in the literature in an area within contemporary philosophy that has quickly grown in prominence. Providing a divine command metanormative analysis of normative reasons on entirely non-religious grounds, its arguments will be relevant to both secular and non-secular audiences alike and will address key issues in meta-ethics, evolutionary theory - especially evolutionary debunking threats to moral reasons and the normative more generally - and epistemology.

Normative Externalism

Normative Externalism
Author: Brian Weatherson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192576887

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one's own principles, has implications across ethics and epistemology. In ethics, it undermines the ideas that moral uncertainty should be treated just like factual uncertainty, that moral ignorance frequently excuses moral wrongdoing, and that hypocrisy is a vice. In epistemology, it suggests we need new treatments of higher-order evidence, and of peer disagreement, and of circular reasoning, and the book suggests new approaches to each of these problems. Although the debates in ethics and in epistemology are often conducted separately, putting them in one place helps bring out their common themes. One common theme is that the view that one should live up to one's own principles looks less attractive when people have terrible principles, or when following their own principles would lead to riskier or more aggressive action than the correct principles. Another common theme is that asking people to live up to their principles leads to regresses. It can be hard to know what action or belief complies with one's principles. And now we can ask, in such a case should a person do what they think their principles require, or what their principles actually require? Both answers lead to problems, and the best way to avoid these problems is to simply say people should follow the correct principles.

Normative Bedrock

Normative Bedrock
Author: Joshua Gert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199657548

Joshua Gert offers an original account of normative facts and properties, those which have implications for how we ought to behave. He argues that our ability to think and talk about normative notions such as reasons and benefits is dependent on how we respond to the world around us, including how we respond to the actions of other people.

Reasons for Action

Reasons for Action
Author: David Sobel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers.

Weighing Reasons

Weighing Reasons
Author: Errol Lord
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199315191

Normative reasons have become a popular theoretical tool in recent decades. One helpful feature of normative reasons is their weight. The fourteen new essays in this book theorize about many different aspects of weight. Topics range from foundational issues to applications of weight in debates across philosophy.

Practical Reason and Norms

Practical Reason and Norms
Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999-09-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191018589

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons. Exclusionary reasons are explained, and used to unlock the secrets of orders, promises, and decisions as well as rules. Games are used to exemplify normative systems. Inevitably, the analysis extends to some aspects of normative discourse, which is truth-apt, but with a diminished assertoric force.