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Normativity and the Problem of Representation

Normativity and the Problem of Representation

Bedke, Matthew S.
Sciaraffa, Stefan

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1032091266
ISBN13: 9781032091266
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 them, puzzles arise. Are there facts of the matter about what ought to be done, much like there are facts of the matter about mathematics or the natural world? If so, ought claims are probably trying to represent the ought facts. Alternatively, perhaps there are no evaluative facts, in which case evaluative claims are either trying to represent facts which do not exist, or evaluative claims are not in the representation business to begin with. The latter option is intriguing, and it is the subject of much recent work in expressivism, pragmatism, and semantic relativism. But if ought claims are not representing anything as factual, why do we think such claims are true or false, and what are we doing when we disagree with one another about them? This book sheds light on this important area of philosophy.

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