About the Book
This volume brings together papers from the 1998 RATIO conference on normativity. A prestigious team of contributors, including Peter Railton, John Skorupski, Frank Jackson, John Broome and Christopher Hookway come together to consider: What is the nautre of normative force? Is normativity itself subject ot sceptical attack? What are the relations between moral and epistemic normativity? How best should we understand the nature of a normative requirement? Can there be an expressivist conception of epistemic normativity? Can we suppose that there are normative beliefs or judgements without admitting the existence of normative facts? The papers highlight many interesting interconnections (and disagreements) in the field of normativity.
Table of Contents:
1. Normative Force and Normative Freedom: Hume and Kant: Peter Railton (University of Michigan). 2. Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason: Joseph Raz (University of Oxford). 3. Epistemic Norms and Theoretical Deliberation: Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield). 4. Normative Requirements: John Broome (University of St. Andrews). 5. Non-Cognitivism, Normativity, Belief: Frank Jackson (Australia National University). 6. Irrealist Cognitivism: John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews).
About the Author :
Professor Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading
1970-1: Lecturer in Classical Philosophy; Pembroke College, Oxford
1971-87: Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Keele
1987-9: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Keele
1988-9: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
1989-91: Reader in Philosophy, University of Keele
1991-6 Professor of Philosophy, University of Keele
1992-6: Head of Philosophy Department, University of Keele
1993-4: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
1994-5: President, Aristotelian Society
1996- Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
1998, Jan-Apr Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
1999-2001 British Academy Research Reader
2000, Jan-Apr Visiting Professor, University of Georgetown, Washington, DC
Publications:
1. Ed. Papers on Language and Logic, University of Keele Library 1981, pp. 226 (Papers of a conference given at the University of Keele in 1979).
2. An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1985, pp. 259. Reprinted 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 (twice), 1996. Translated into Portuguese, 1988 (Edicoes 70): into Chinese, 1990 (People's University of China Press, translated by Zhou Wenzhang): into Spanish, 1992 (Editorial Tecnos, Madrid).
3. Berkeley: an Introduction, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1987, pp. 165.
4. Ed. (with J.M.E. Moravscik and C.C.W. Taylor) Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1988, pp.308.
5. Ed. Perceptual Knowledge, Oxford University Press (Oxford Readings in Philosophy series), 1988, pp. 232, with an introduction (pp. 1-20).
6. Ed. (with E. Sosa) A Companion to Epistemology, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1992, pp. 541; paperback edition 1993. Translated into Romanian, 1998
7. Moral Reasons, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, pp. 274.
8. Ed. Reading Parfit, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1997, pp. 352.
9. Ed. Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge (with introduction, notes, glossary and index), Oxford University Press,1998, pp. 237.
10. Ed. Berkeley: Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (with introduction, notes, glossary and index), Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 186.
11. Ed. Normativity (forthcoming Blackwell, 2000).
12. Practical Reality, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
