Comments on Ralph Wedgwood's The Nature of Normativity

Ralph Wedgwood has written a big book: not in terms of pages (though there are plenty) but in terms of scope and ambition. Scope, in that he addresses many of the central issues around normativity, providing an account of the semantics of 'ought', and then a metaphysics and an epistemology...

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Main Author: Holton, Richard (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2012-07-23T20:59:03Z.
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