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The Normative Animal?

On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms

Herausgeber: Roughley, Neil; Bayertz, Kurt

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the claim that humans are essentially normative animals. They do so by looking at the nature and relations of three types of norms, or putative norms-social, moral, and linguistic-and asking whether they might be different expressions of one basic structure unique to humankind.

Autor

Neil Roughley is Chair for Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He specializes in metaethics, action theory, philosophical psychology, and the theory of human nature. His historical interests include the classical figures of ethical sentimentalism, particularly Adam Smith and David Hume, as well as the history of action theory. He is author of Wanting and Intending: Elements of a Philosophy of Practical Mind (Springer Macmillan, 2015), has edited several volumes, including Forms of Fellow Feeling: Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and was recently guest editor of a special issue of Philosophical Psychology, vol. 31/5 (2018), on Tomasello's A Natural History of Human Morality. Kurt Bayertz is Senior-Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Munster. His research focuses on ethics, anthropology, and selected topics in the history of philosophy. He is author of Technological Intervention in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1994), among other books. His book Der aufrechte Gang ("The Upright Posture") received the Tractatus Prize for philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Foundations of Human Interaction
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9780190846466
• ISBN-10: 0190846461
• Artikelnr.: 56145858