Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning

by Mark Okrent

Book Overview

Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other. Rather, if we concentrate on the facts that speaking and thinking are activities of organic agents, then the problem of the place of the normative in nature becomes refocused on three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367886294
• ISBN13: 9780367886295
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"