A problem for the unity of normativity

Shackel, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1751-1400 2014. A problem for the unity of normativity. Analysis 74 (3) , pp. 404-411. 10.1093/analys/anu063

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Abstract

A prevalent assumption is that normativity is a unity. In this paper I argue against this assumption by demonstrating the problems it poses to a well known answer to a well known problem for taking rationality to be normative. John Broome's normative requirement relation does indeed avoid that problem, but insofar as the relation is supposed to offer a general characterisation of the normativity of rationality, it fails. It fails because it cannot capture an important aspect of the normativity of rationality, that it is available to guide us. I show that if we distinguish two kinds of normativity it need not fail in this way.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
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Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
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Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0003-2638
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	22 May 2023 17:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61295

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