A Sellarsian Approach to the Normativism-Antinormativism Controversy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10927673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dionysis Christias (University of Athens, Athens, Greece, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-175 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0048393114530786 |
| OpenAlex | W2086199595 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
In this article, it is argued that Sellars’ view of normativity is the key for a proper resolution of the debate between normativism and anti-normativism, as the latter is described in Turner’s recent book Explaining the Normative. Drawing on an early Sellarsian article (“A Semantical Solution to the Mind-Body Problem”), I suggest that both normativism and anti-normativism (including Turner’s brand of the latter) are ultimately unsatisfactory positions and for the same reason: due to their failure to draw a distinction between causal or explanatory reducibility and logical or conceptual reducibility of the normative to the non-normative
Epistemology · Normative · Sociology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology
Ethics
Aspects of Scientific Explanation
Psychosemantics
Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man
Explaining Normativity
On the sociology of scientific knowledge and its philosophical agenda
Normative all the way down
Naming and Saying
Realism and the New Way of Words
Science and Metaphysics
The social theory of practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |