281 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.This analysis drives a critique of a common practice as a misuse of normative language. The "absolutist" attempts to use and, as philosopher, analyze normative language in such a way as to justify the imposition of certain interests over others. But these uses and analyses are incoherent---in denying relativity to particular desires they conflict with the actual meaning of these utterances, which is always indexed to some particular set of desires.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
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Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws bind...
People have various desires, but it is a contested moral issue when a desire becomes of such importa...
This chapter aims to clarify debate over the nature, existence, extension, and analyzability of norm...
Value and reasons for action are often cited by rationalists and moral realists as providing a desi...
The relationship between truth and value can be investigated from two points of view: (i) the relati...
Concepts of value are used in a wide variety of contexts and meanings in philosophy. Philosophers di...
This dissertation consists of three independent papers that are linked by two threads. The first thr...
Abstract: I argue that relativists about evaluative language face some of the same objections as non...
In earlier chapters, we described debates between objectivists and relativists over methodology in t...
Normative language is characteristically used in ethical discussions about what we must do, what we ...
The thesis defended, the “guise of the ought”, is that the formal objects of desires are norms (ough...
The question of whether meaning is inherently normative has become a central topic in philosophy and...
What is the normativity of (linguistic) meaning? What exactly does this thesis (that meaning is norm...
I argue that relativists about aesthetic and other evaluative language face some of the same objecti...
What is the source of epistemic normativity? In virtue of what do epistemic norms have categorical n...
Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws bind...
People have various desires, but it is a contested moral issue when a desire becomes of such importa...
This chapter aims to clarify debate over the nature, existence, extension, and analyzability of norm...