Explaining Normativity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2007
Keywords
Kelsen, normativity, Mauss, naturalism, practices
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393106296543
Abstract
In this reply, I raise some questions about the account of “normativity” given by Joseph Rouse. I discuss the historical form of disputes over normativity in such thinkers as Kelsen and show that the standard issue with these accounts is over the question of whether there is anything added to the normal stream of explanation by the problem of normativity. I suggest that Rouse’s attempt to avoid the issues that arise with substantive explanatory theories of practices of the kind criticized in The Social Theory of Practices leads to a result that is uninformative, and the strategy raises the question of whether there is anything there to explain and thus whether there is any necessity to appeal to the kind of anomalous explanations the normativist offers.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v. 37, issue 1, p. 57-73
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "Explaining Normativity" (2007). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 266.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/266
