Choosing Normative Concepts
ISBN: 9780198717829
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Moral Philosophy Metaphysics/ Epistemology;

The concepts we use to value and prescribe (concepts like good, right, and ought) are historically contingent, and we could have found ourselves with other concepts. But how can we rationally choose between different concepts? What does it mean to say that some concepts are better than others for purposes of action-guiding and deliberation? Matti Eklund offers an account of what it is to choose between different normative conceptual frameworks.

Matti Eklund is Chair Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University. He received his PhD from MIT in 2000. Previously he has taught at a number of other universities, including University of Colorado-Boulder and Cornell University. He has published on a variety of topics in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and metaethics.

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