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Hel** Others to Understand: A Normative Account of the Speech Act of Explanation
This paper offers a normative account of the speech act of explanation with understanding as its norm. The previous accounts of the speech act of...
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A lineage explanation of human normative guidance: the coadaptive model of instrumental rationality and shared intentionality
This paper aims to contribute to the existing literature on normative cognition by providing a lineage explanation of human social norm psychology....
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Normative Reference as a Normative Question
Normative naturalism holds that normative properties are identical with, or reducible to, natural properties. Various challenges to naturalism focus...
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The intrapersonal normative twin earth argument
In this paper I develop an argument against applying a causal theory of mental content to normative concepts. This argument—which I call the...
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Predicates of personal taste and normative meaning
The main aim of the paper is to reject the idea that predicates of personal taste express normative meanings. According to a recent theory proposed...
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Normative uncertainty meets voting theory
Recent attempts to provide a viable account of decision making under normative uncertainty through the use of voting procedures seem promising, but...
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Medical Explanation
Medical explanation may consist in hierarchical research, reduction, supervenience, inference to the best explanation. The degree of inductive...
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Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims
Some of Michel Foucault’s work focusses on an archeological and genealogical analysis of certain aspects of the medical episteme, such as ‘ Madness...
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Against a normative asymmetry between near- and future-bias
Empirical evidence shows that people have multiple time-biases. One is near-bias; another is future-bias. Philosophical theorising about these biases...
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Value-based accounts of normative powers and the wishful thinking objection
Normative powers like promising allow agents to effect changes to their reasons, permissions and rights by the means of communicative actions whose...
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Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit...
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Cultural Models Are Intrinsically Normative
In this chapter, I argue that “cultural models”, understood as socially shared and action-guiding knowledge, are intrinsically normative. Arguably,...
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Modelling in Normative Ethics
This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of...
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Justice and the Normative Standards of Explainability in Healthcare
Providing healthcare services frequently involves cognitively demanding tasks, including diagnoses and analyses as well as complex decisions about...
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A Humean explanation of acting on normative reasons
This article presents a limited defense of Humeanism about practical reason. Jonathan Dancy and other traditional objective-reasons theorists (e.g.,...
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In Defence of the Normative Account of Ignorance
The standard view of ignorance is that it consists in the mere lack of knowledge or true belief. Duncan Pritchard has recently argued, against the...
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Normative Ethical Theories: II
Gain an understanding about non-consequentialist ethics as a preeminent branch of normative ethics.
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Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation
The problem of explanatory asymmetry remains a serious challenge for non-causal accounts of explanation. This paper proposes a novel solution, and it...
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Near-death experiences: feasibility and advantages of the mechanistic explanation
The new mechanistic philosophy seeks to identify and explain the mechanisms of various phenomena, including their overall organization and the...
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Two Kinds of Explanation and Their Significance
There is a distinction between two kinds of explanation by content-involving states, a distinction that emerges most clearly when we consider...