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Methodological Norms in Traditional and Feminist Philosophy of Science

open access: closedPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1994
This essay explores one of the fundamental ways in which feminist methodology in philosophy of science differs from most standard philosophy of science. Methodology in general arises from goals which the methods are designed to reach. Feminist goals in philosophy have been scandalous precisely because they are avowed political interventions into what ...
Elizabeth Potter
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Justification of Moral Norms in African Philosophy

open access: closed, 2018
In this chapter, I examine the ways African philosophers have attempted to justify moral norms. The aim is to account for these efforts at justifying moral norms by means of typologies. In the main, I consider four typologies of justification, namely, (1) appeal to tradition, (2) appeal to community, (3) appeal to religion and the gods, and (4) appeal ...
Uchenna Okeja
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Norms and language games Understanding normative relativism through Wittgenstein’s philosophy [PDF]

open access: closedAnnual International Conference on Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCS 2017), 2017
Giuseppe Luca Moliterni
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Normative Naturalism and the Role of Philosophy [PDF]

open access: possiblePhilosophy of Science, 1990
The prescriptive force of methodological rules rests, I argue, on the acceptance of scientific theories; that of the most general methodological rules rests on theories in the philosophy of science, which differ from theories in the several sciences only in generality and abstraction. I illustrate these claims by reference to methodological disputes in
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The continuity of inquiry and normative philosophy of science

Metaphilosophy, 2021
AbstractThis paper aims to contribute to debates about the nature of philosophical inquiry and its relation to science. The starting point is theDiscontinuity View(DV), which holds that philosophy is discontinuous with science. Upon critically engaging two lines of argument in favor of DV, the paper presents and defends theContinuity View(CV ...
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Cassirer's normative philosophy

The Journal of Value Inquiry, 1993
Dans le cadre des debats sur la normativite de la philosophie de Cassirer, l'A. suggere que le sens des normes ne devrait pas entrainer un code ou une theorie ethique, tels que le code utilitariste ou la theorie de la loi naturelle.
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