Is Naturalism Normative?: Some Problems with Naturalizing Epistemic Normativity
- Autores: Barbara Trybulec
- Localización: VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012 / Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (aut.), Concepción Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.), José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.), José Miguel Sagüillo Fernández-Vega (dir. congr.), Víctor Martín Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.), Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9887-939-1, págs. 308-315
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the paper I pose a question whether naturalized epistemology can be conducted as a normative enterprise. It is noticeable that naturalists cannot deliver substantial, traditionally understood account of normativity. This is the reason why naturalism is often conceived as a merely descriptive enterprise. Nevertheless, naturalists do not reject normativity yet they understand it in a very specific sense. In the paper I show the main problem with naturalising epistemic norms which could be expressed in the question: What is the difference between norms and description of facts? My thesis is that naturalistic epistemic norms are actually descriptions of empirical phenomena which are expressed in a normative form for the sake of everyday life and scientific practice.
