The normal, the natural and the good: Generics and ideology

The idea of "what's normal" has two importantly different uses. On one hand, "what's normal" is a statistical concept: what's normal is what is statistically probable. On the other hand, "what's normal," is a normative concept. What's normal is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haslanger, Sally
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Societa Editrice il Mulino 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97196