Choosing normative concepts / Matti Eklund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eklund, Matti, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normativity (Ethics).

Metaethics.

Concepts.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness, rightness, and what ought to be done are only some of the possible normative concepts there are. There are other possible concepts, ascribing different properties. Matti Eklund explores the consequences of this thought, for example for the debate over normative realism, and for the debate over what it is for concepts and properties to be normative. Conceptual engineering - the project of considering how our concepts can be replaced by better ones - has become a central topic in philosophy. Eklund applies this methodology to central normative concepts and discusses the special complications that arise in this case.

Contents:

Ardent realism

Alternative normative concepts

Qualifications and objections

Normative concepts

Normative properties

Presentationalism

Being against what is plainly right

Connections

Thick concepts

Some metaphilosophical issues

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-178733-7