The Roots of Normativity
$250.24
- Hardcover
316 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2022
Summary
The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values.
This volume collects twelve chapters which succinctly lay out his view, and determine its contours through some…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192847003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192847007 |
| Author: | Joseph Raz, Prof Joseph Raz, Dr Ulrike Heuer |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 598g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 163mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
A contribution that concludes generously by mapping out innumerable intellectual paths for normative philosophers to explore. * Kimberley Brownlee, Ethics *
About The Author
Joseph Raz
Joseph Raz is Research Professor of Law at King’s College London. He has held teaching positions at the University of Oxford and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ulrike Heuer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College London. She previously worked at the University of Leeds, the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard College, New York, and Columbia University. Her research is mainly in ethics and philosophy of action.
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