The Nature of Normativity
Wedgwood, Ralph Merton College, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925131-5




6 The Metaphysical Issues
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251315.003.0007

Ralph Wedgwood
Abstract: This chapter explains the metaphysical concepts that will be used in Part II of the book: the concepts of a ‘constitutive account’ of a property, of essence and metaphysical necessity, and of supervenience and realization.

Keywords: metaphysics, facts, properties, natural facts, constitutive account, essence, necessity, supervenience, realization,

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Full Book Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I The Semantics of Normative Thought and Discourse
1 Thinking About What Ought To Be
2 Expressivism
3 Causal Theories and Conceptual Analyses
4 Conceptual Role Semantics
5 Context and the Logic of ‘Ought’
Part II The Metaphysics of Normative Facts
6 The Metaphysical Issues
7 The Normativity of the Intentional
8 Irreducibility and Causal Efficacy
9 Non-reductive Naturalism
Part III The Epistemology of Normative Belief
10 The Status of Normative Intuitions
11 Disagreement and the A Priori
12 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
 
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