Normative explanation unchained
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10348331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pekka Väyrynen (0000-0003-4066-8577, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-297 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phpr.12717 |
| OpenAlex | W3042305846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
Normative theories aim to explain why things have the normative features they have. This paper argues that, contrary to some plausible existing views, one important kind of normative explanations which first‐order normative theories aim to formulate and defend can fail to transmit downward along chains of metaphysical determination of normative facts by non‐normative facts. Normative explanation is plausibly subject to a kind of a justification condition whose satisfaction may fail to transmit along the relevant kind of metaphysical hierarchy. A broader aim of the paper is to contribute to systematic theorizing about normative explanation: whereas there has been a great deal of work on scientific explanation, there has been little by way of systematic exploration of what sort of explanations normative theories aim to formulate and defend
Epistemology · Hierarchy · Metaphysics · Normative · Normative social influence · Political science · sort · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
The Scientific Image
Reasons Why
Making Things Happen
Inference to the Best Explanation
Guide to ground
Grounding, transitivity, and contrastivity
A Logic for ‘Because’
The Unity of Grounding
The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations
Action, Knowledge, and Will
Concern, Respect, and Cooperation
An honest look at hybrid theories of pleasure
Program explanation
Transitivity, self-explanation, and the explanatory circularity argument against Humean accounts of natural law
No understanding without explanation
Mental Causation
Normative Appeals to the Natural
Not All Partial Grounds Partly Ground
Moral Realism
The Value of Rationality
Supervenience and moral dependence
Ethics Without Principles
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |