Comments on Ralph Wedgwood's The Nature of Normativity
Ralph Wedgwood has written a big book: not in terms of pages (though there are plenty) but in terms of scope and ambition. Scope, in that he addresses many of the central issues around normativity, providing an account of the semantics of ‘ought’, and then a metaphysics and an epistemology to go...
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| description | Ralph Wedgwood has written a big book: not in terms of pages (though there are
plenty) but in terms of scope and ambition. Scope, in that he addresses many of the
central issues around normativity, providing an account of the semantics of ‘ought’,
and then a metaphysics and an epistemology to go with it; ambition in that so much
of this is novel. Along the way there are myriad discussion of relevant philosophical
background issues and of methodology. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/717692022-10-01T22:46:10Z Comments on Ralph Wedgwood's The Nature of Normativity Holton, Richard Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Holton, Richard Holton, Richard Ralph Wedgwood has written a big book: not in terms of pages (though there are plenty) but in terms of scope and ambition. Scope, in that he addresses many of the central issues around normativity, providing an account of the semantics of ‘ought’, and then a metaphysics and an epistemology to go with it; ambition in that so much of this is novel. Along the way there are myriad discussion of relevant philosophical background issues and of methodology. 2012-07-23T20:59:03Z 2012-07-23T20:59:03Z 2010-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-8116 1573-0883 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71769 Holton, Richard. “Comments on Ralph Wedgwood’s The Nature of Normativity.” Philosophical Studies 151.3 (2010): 449–457. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8116-2639 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-010-9550-z Philosophical Studies Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag MIT web domain |
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