« Séminaire de Métaéthique »

22 mai 2019 – 15h-17h

Lecturer:

Matthew Bedke
(University of British Columbia)

« Naturalism and Normative Thought »

 
Abstract:
Normative thought seems rather important, even ineliminable. Communities that lack normative concepts like SHOULD, IS A REASON TO, JUSTIFIES, etc. seem to be missing something. And yet a popular metaethic, naturalism, entails that normative concepts and normative thinking is in principle eliminable. Here, I press this argument against naturalism, consider some replies by David Copp and Nicholas Laskowski, and suggest that a version of subjectivist naturalism does the best job preserving the importance and ineliminability of this special way of thinking.

Adresse
ENS
29 rue d’Ulm – 75005 Paris
Salle du Centre Cavaillès, (3ème étage, droite)

organisé par
Monique Canto Sperber (CNRS/ENS/République des Savoirs)
et
Stéphane Lemaire (Université de Rennes 1/République des Savoirs)