Interlocking content and attitude: a reply to the anti-normativist

Anti-normativists have advanced the view that the involvement of content in norms is not an essential feature of content, but a contingent feature or side effect of the normativity governing attitudes. In this paper, we argue that, in its original formulation, this view puts too much weight on the i...

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Published in:Inquiry (Oslo) 2021-11, Vol.64 (10), p.1051-1072
Main Authors: Verdejo, Víctor M., González de Prado, Javier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
belief normativity
Boghossian
Content normativity
Interconnections
primacy of belief
Speaks
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Summary:Anti-normativists have advanced the view that the involvement of content in norms is not an essential feature of content, but a contingent feature or side effect of the normativity governing attitudes. In this paper, we argue that, in its original formulation, this view puts too much weight on the idea that belief is the fundamental, and perhaps the only, source of content-involving normativity. In its more refined formulation, however, the view does not make justice to a neutral and encompassing characterization of what it is for content to be essentially normative.
ISSN:0020-174X
1502-3923
DOI:10.1080/0020174X.2021.1985603