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Author Turner, Stephen P., 1951-

Title Explaining the normative / Stephen P. Turner
Published Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010

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 MELB  170.44 Tur/Etn  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Contents What is the problem of normativity? -- The conflict with science and social science -- A paradigm case: the normativity of the law -- Lustral rites and systems of concepts -- Communities, collective intentions, and group reactions -- Rationality or intelligibility
Summary "Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how this pattern depends on circularities, preferred descriptions, problematic transcendental arguments, and regress arguments ending in mysteries."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-215) and index
Subject Normativity (Ethics)
ISBN 9780745642550 hardback
0745642551 (hbk.)
074564256X (paperback)
9780745642567