De Caro / Macarthur Naturalism and Normativity

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-50887-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Caro, Mario

Macarthur, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity, by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur
Part I. Conceptual and Historical Background
1.The Wider Significance of Naturalism: A Genealogical Essay, by Akeel Bilgrami
2. Naturalism and Quietism, by Richard Rorty
3. Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?, by Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini
Part II. Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
4. Science and Philosophy, by Hilary Putnam
5. Why Scientific Realism May Invite Relativism, by Carol Rovane
Part III. Philosophy and the Human Sciences
6. Taking the Human Sciences Seriously, by David Macarthur
7. Reasons and Causes Revisited, by Peter Menzies
Part IV. Meta-ethics and Normativity
8. Metaphysics and Morals, by T. M. Scanlon
9. The Naturalist Gap in Ethics, by Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson
10. Phenomenology and the Normativity of Practical Reason, by Stephen L. White
Part V. Epistemology and Normativity
11. Truth as Convenient Friction, by Huw Price
12. Exchange on "Truth as Convenient Friction", by Richard Rorty and Huw Price
13. Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism: Naturalism and Idealism, by Paul Redding
Part VI. Naturalism and Human Nature
14. How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature, by John Dupré
15. Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
16. Wittgenstein and Naturalism, by Marie McGinn
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mario De Caro is associate professor of moral philosophy at University of Rome 3. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Tufts University. He has edited several anthologies, including, with David Macarthur, Philosophy in an Age of Science, two new volumes of essays by Hilary Putnam.

David Macarthur is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published articles on skepticism, naturalism, neopragmatism, and Wittgenstein in leading journals, and, with Mario De Caro, is the editor of Naturalism in Question.