Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’
dc.contributor.author | Railton, Peter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-01T19:11:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-01 15:11:41 | en |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-01T19:11:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Railton, Peter (2023). "Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’." Journal of Applied Philosophy 40(2): 220-230. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0264-3758 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-5930 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176297 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ruth Chang has argued convincingly that we must recognize that some choices will not involve strict, univocal comparison of options. How, then, can such choices be made well? Chang suggests that commitment is a fundamental way of ‘putting one’s very self’ behind a normative consideration, thereby ‘endow[ing] that consideration with the normativity of a reason’. This view challenges what Chang deems to be three dogmas of normativity, and the current comment critically assesses the relation of her view to the first and third of these dogmas. I suggest some alternative ways of thinking about these dogmas, which enable us to see how her work might uncover a fourth dogma, and which can, I believe, lend strength to a position very close to Chang’s. | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | |
dc.title | Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’ | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Philosophy | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176297/1/japp12649_am.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176297/2/japp12649.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/japp.12649 | |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Applied Philosophy | |
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dc.identifier.citedreference | Chang, Ruth. “3 Dogmas of Normativity.” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12626. | |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. M. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1797 /1996. | |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Kavka, Gregory S. “ The Toxin Puzzle.” Analysis 43, no. 1 ( 1983 ): 33 – 6. | |
dc.working.doi | NO | en |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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