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Normativity, prudence and welfare
Most discussions of discourse about welfare and discourse about prudence are a “package deal” when it comes to their normativity—either both or...
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Metaethics as Dead Politics? On Political Normativity and Justification
Many political realists endorse some notion of political normativity. They think that there are certain normative claims about politics that do not...
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Normativity as Intersubjective Control
Searle’s theory of social construction eventually indicates that normativity must be sustained through the intentional exercise of power between...
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Organizational normativity and teleology: a critique
In recent years, so-called organizational accounts (OA) have emerged in theoretical biology as a powerful, viable strategy for naturalizing teleology...
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Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument
This paper presents a new argument to defend the normativity of meaning, specifically the thesis that there are no meanings without norms. The...
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A Normativity Wager for Skeptics
Several philosophers have recently advanced wager-based arguments for the existence of irreducibly normative truths or against normative nihilism....
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Beyond Authority: Hinge Constitutivism about Epistemic Normativity
According to constitutivism, we can justify the authority of aims and norms on the ground that they are inescapable. Constitutivist views divide...
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Normativity as Rational Grounds
The previous chapters analyze the theoretical developments of authors ranging from Austin and Searle to Moya, pointing out the achievements and...
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Husserl on shared intentionality and normativity
The paper offers a systematic reconstruction of the relations that, in Husserl’s work, bind together our shared social world (“the spiritual world”)...
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Normativity as Collective Creation
The failure of the rational approach shows that norms can be the desire-independent reason for action because we recognize the social facts and...
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Husserl on the Normativity of Intentionality and Its Neutralization
In this paper, I explore Husserl’s view on the normativity of intentionality and its neutralization. Husserl reaches his mature,...
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Inquiry, reasoning and the normativity of logic
According to the traditional view in the philosophy of logic facts of logic bear normative authority regarding how one ought to reason. Usually this...
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The Division of Normativity and a Defence of Demanding Moral Theories
Morality, according to some theories, demands a lot of us. One way to defend such demanding moral theories is through an appeal to the division of...
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Artifactual normativity
A central tension sha** metaethical inquiry is that normativity appears to be subjective yet real , where it’s difficult to reconcile these aspects....
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What Is Biological Normativity?
This essay focuses on two philosophical assumptions. According to the first one, biological normativity is not an irreducible property of the living,...
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The epistemic normativity of conjecture
This paper has two aims: (1) it develops and defends a fully-fledged account of the epistemic normativity of conjecture (2) it goes sharply against...
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Motivation, counterfactual predictions and constraints: normativity of predictive mechanisms
The aim of this paper is to present the ontic approach to the normativity of cognitive functions and mechanisms, which is directly related to the...
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Normativity, Autonomy, and Agency: A Critical Review of Three Essays on Agency in Nature, and a Modest Proposal for the Road Ahead
Has the renewal of interest in the ostensible agency of living beings signaled an advance from a merely heuristic Kantian sense of purposiveness to...
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Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life
Our goal in this paper is to reassess the relationship between norms and life by drawing on the philosophy of Georges Canguilhem, particularly some...
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Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual...