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Justification of Moral Norms in African Philosophy

, 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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On The Philosophy With Juridical Norms

, 2008

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Norms and language games Understanding normative relativism through Wittgenstein’s philosophy [PDF]

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

Philosophy 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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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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Beyond Foundations: Signs of a New Normativity in Philosophy of Education

Educational Theory, 2004
We analyzed how philosophers of education received the ‘antifoundationalist’ turn in epistemology, particularly with respect to its practical relevance. Our main conclusion is, that antifoundationalist philosophers of education discharge the primacy of epistemology, replacing it by a primacy of commitment.
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Is Legal Philosophy Normative?

2011
H. L. A. Hart characterized his theory about the nature of law as “descriptive and morally neutral.” Like previous legal positivists such as John Austin and Hans Kelsen, he thought that a philosophical account of the nature of law should strive to avoid moralizing of any kind, and should aim at an explanation of the nature of law that is quite general ...
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Normative Dialogue Types in Philosophy for Children

Gifted Education International, 2007
Douglas Walton's taxonomy of dialogue types facilitates a normative analysis of different types of dialogue practiced in Philosophy for Children. The overarching goal of a dialogue in Philosophy for Children is for the participants to arrive at reasonable philosophical judgments.
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Norms and the Philosophy of Law

1987
AbstractThe last two chapters were devoted to empirical dialetheias produced by the natural world. This chapter discusses some produced by the social world, in particular, dialetheias that are produced by systems of norms or rules. Legal dilemmas and dialetheias, in particular, are discussed in detail. A dialetheic deontic logic is described.
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