Laudan, Intuition and Normative Naturalism

Moral intuition: its neural substrates and normative significance.

Philosophers use the phrase "moral intuition" to describe the appearance in consciousness of moral judgments or assessments without any awareness of having gone through a conscious reasoning process that produces this assessment. This paper investigates the neural substrates of moral intuition. We propose that moral intuitions are part of a larger set of social intuitions that guide us through ...

Response to Howson and Laudan

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heidegger.ontological attitude and naturalism

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences

Is Naturalism Normative? The Function of Epistemic Norms Within Naturalized Epistemology

The topic of the paper is the problem of normativity within naturalized epistemology. The question I pose is whether naturalism can be conducted as a normative enterprise or whether it is merely descriptive as traditional epistemologists maintain. If they are to be faithful to their philosophical presuppositions naturalists cannot deliver traditionally understood substantive account of normativ...