Supervenience and Normativity
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Beschreibung
The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively. It addresses the controversies surrounding the idea of normative supervenience and the philosophical conceptions they generated, deserve a recapitulation, as well as a new impulse for further development.
Recently, there has been renewed interest in the concepts of normativity and supervenience. The research on normativity – a term introduced to the philosophical jargon by Edmund Husserl almost one hundred years ago – gained impetus in the 1990s through the works of such philosophers as Robert Audi, Christine Korsgaard, Robert Brandom, Paul Boghossian or Joseph Raz. The problem of the nature and sources of normativity has been investigated not only in morals and in relation to language, but also in other domains, e.g. in law or in the c
ontext of the theories of rationality. Supervenience, understood as a special kind of relation between properties and weaker than entailment, has become analytic philosophers’ favorite formal tool since 1980s. It features in the theories pertaining to mental properties, but also in aesthetics or the law.In recent years, the ‘marriage’ of normativity and supervenience has become an object of many philosophical theories as well as heated debates. It seems that the conceptual apparatus of the supervenience theory makes it possible to state precisely some claims pertaining to normativity, as well as illuminate the problems surrounding it.
Contains groundbreaking contributions to one of the most heated philosophical debates
Represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals
Comments on both the insights and the controversies as well as to open new perspectives for the research on normative supervenience
Aims to be the first work to address the topic of normative supervenience comprehensively
Contains groundbreaking contributions to one of the most heated philosophical debates Represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals Comments on both the insights and the controversies as well as to open new perspectives for the research on normative supervenience Aims to be the first work to address the topic of normative supervenience comprehensively
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Bartosz Brożek
Themen in »Supervenience and Normativity«
Edmund Husserl Robert Audi Supervenience Christine Korsgaard Robert Brandom Paul Boghossian Nature of Law Nature of Morality Joseph Raz Sources of normativity Theories pertaining to mental properties Normative and evaluative discourse Propositional and Doxastic Justification Supervenience dilemma Implausibility of moral realism