Normative generally means relating to an evaluative standard.Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good or desirable or permissible and others as bad or undesirable or impermissible. A norm in this normative sense means a standard for evaluating or making judgments about behavior or outcomes. Normative is sometimes also used, somewhat.
In this dissertation, I develop an account of non-vacuous counterpossibles—counterfactuals involving metaphysical impossibilities—and related notions, e.g. metaphysical similarity between impossible worlds, that does not require us to take on questionable ontological commitments and that gives us a clear epistemological story about how we know counterpossible claims. My account of.
The Psychology of Worldviews: Toward a Non-Reductive Science of Personality Nilsson, Artur LU (). Mark; Abstract Persons are not just mechanical systems of instinctual animalistic proclivities, but also language-producing, existentially aware creatures, whose experiences and actions are drenched in subjective meaning.
She tackles various versions of the 'uniqueness' thesis, namely, that participant observation is unique to social science and relies on a non-naturalistic style of explanation. For every version of the uniqueness thesis, Zahle shows that either a similar method to participant observation is used in the natural sciences, or that there is an alternative method that makes the non-naturalistic one.
Gibbard’s weak thesis can plausibly be seen as a version of ME-normativism applied to the concept of meaning: The idea is that every statement about meaning very directly implies certain ought statements (even if, again, meaning itself is not normative). Gibbard also suggests that the weak thesis is the thesis defended by Kripke’s Wittgenstein.
This article focuses on issues relating to legal normativity, emphasizing the way these matters have been elaborated in the works of Kelsen and Hart and later commentators on their theories. First, in Section 2, the author offers a view regarding the nature of law and legal normativity focusing on Kelsen's work (at least one reasonable reading of it).
In his second book on moral relativism, Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (Wong 2006), which is the focus of this edited volume, Wong gives new arguments for an ambitious, sophisti-cated, and original version of moral relativism, which was first sketched out in his 1984 book. As one of the reviewers remarks, Wong’s new book.
Law is traditionally related to the practice of command and hierarchy. It seems that a legal rule should immediately establish a relation between a superior and an inferior. This hierarchical and authoritharian view might however be challenged once the phenomenology of the rule is considered from the internal point of view, that is, from the stance of those that can be said to “use” rather.