Vayrynen, P orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-8577 Normative Naturalism on Its Own Terms. Organon F, 28 (3). pp. 505-530. ISSN 1335-0668
Abstract
Normative naturalism is primarily a metaphysical doctrine: there are normative facts and properties, and these 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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author. Journal compilation © The Editorial Board, Organon F. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
Keywords: | Authoritative normativity; normative concepts; normative naturalism; one-term naturalism; practical normativity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2021 09:37 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2023 08:36 |
Published Version: | https://www.sav.sk/?lang=en&doc=journal-list&part=... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Identification Number: | 10.31577/orgf.2021.28302 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173593 |