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Christensen, Wayne (2012) Natural sources of normativity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43 (1). pp. 104-112. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.009 ISSN 1369-8486.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.009
Abstract
Normativity is widely regarded as being naturalistically problematic. Teleosemantic theories aimed to provide a naturalistic grounding for the normativity of mental representation in biological proper function, but have been subject to a variety of criticisms and would in any case provide only a thin naturalist platform for grounding normativity more generally. Here I present an account that identifies a basic form of valuational normativity in autonomous systems, and show how the account can be extended to encompass key aspects of the normativity of functions and practical reasons.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | ||||
Publisher: | Pergamon Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1369-8486 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 104-112 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.009 |
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