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It's difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like 'You ought to donate to charity,' or 'You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence'--without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers have always been puzzled by such a 'realism' about the normative, for an array of conceptual, epistemological, and metaphysical reasons.
This book gathers together a collection of essays on this classic philosophical problem, authored by a mix of senior and junior contributors. Taken together, they illustrate the great progress that has been made on these fundamental but thorny issues. They also introduce some new puzzles about normative realism which had not been previously appreciated. The topics covered include the objectivity, epistemology, and metaphysics of normative judgments; the possibility of alternative normative conceptual schemes; and the way in which normative issues arise in such disparate areas as arithmetic and aesthetics. The volume opens with a substantial Introduction by the editors which provides a contemporary overview of the landscape of issues facing a realism about the normative and situates the authors' contributions within it.
Contents
1: Paul BoghossianChristopher Peacocke: Normative Realism: An Introduction to the Issues
2: Christopher Peacocke: Moral Realism: A Rationalist Metaphysics-First Treatment
3: Declan Smithies: On Foundational Moral Knowledge
4: Sarah McGrath: Ethics: How Hard Can It Be?
5: Sharon Street: How to Be a Relativist About Normativity
6: Matti Eklund: Alternative Concepts, Ardor, and Elusive Questions
7: Shamik Dasgupta: Objectivity as a Normative Notion (Twice Over)
8: Paul Boghossian: Minimalism, the Synthetic A Priori, and Alternative Normative Concepts
9: Justin Clarke-Doane: What Is Logical Monism?
10: John BengsonTerence CuneoRuss Shafer-Landau: Normative Authority
11: Claire Kirwin: Normativity from the First-Person Perspective
12: John Broome: Is There Reason? Are There Reason-Forces?
13: Hannah Ginsborg: The Reality of Primitive Norms
14: Michael Tomasello andIvan Gonzalez-Cabrera: How to Build a Normative Creature
15: Samantha Matherne: Kant on the Aesthetic Normativity of Colors and Tones
16: Mark Johnston: The Objective Prescriptive Core of Morality
17: Gideon Rosen: The Explanatory Role of Moral Principles
18: Antonia Peacocke: Realism, Particularism, and Grounding in Aesthetics
19: Crispin Wright: Reflections on Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Arithmetic
