Truth and Norms: Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative
Disagreements engages three philosophical topics and the relationships
among them. Filippo Ferrari first contributes to the debate on the
nature and normative significance of disagreement, especially in
relation to evaluative judgements such as judgements about basic
taste, refined aesthetics, and moral matters. Second, he addresses the
issue of epistemic normativity, focusing in particular on the
normative function(s) that truth exerts on judgements. Third, he
contributes to the debate on truth—more specifically, which account
of the nature of truth best accommodates the norms relating judgements
and truth. This book develops and defends a novel pluralistic picture
of the normativity of truth: normative alethic pluralism (NAP). At the
core of NAP is the idea that truth exerts different normative
functions in relation to different areas of inquiry. Ferrari argues
that this picture of the normativity of truth offers the best
explanation of the variable normative significance that disagreement
exhibits in relation to different subject matters—from a rather
shallow normative impact in the case of disagreement about taste, to a
normatively more substantive significance in relation to moral
judgements. Last, Ferrari defends the view that NAP does not require a
commitment to truth pluralism, since it is fully compatible with a
somewhat refined version of minimalism about truth.
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Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative Disagreements
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ISBN
9781793622686
Publisert
2021
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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