The Assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Sacred Cows, and the Conundrum of Rules
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Sacred Cows, and the Conundrum of Rules
Original language description
Naturalists believe that norms and rules are not explanatory and that searching for causes is the only reasonable way to improve social sciences. On the other hand, normativists claim that norms and rules exist and there is no way how to reduce what "ought to be" to what "is" without losing something important. With respect to social sciences, they claim that norms and rules are explanatory. I argue that the normativist claim is interesting but wrong. Norms and rules serve us as a criterion for correctness and nothing more and rules will not increase our scientific understanding of any kind of phenomena. There are two main reasons why norms are not explanatory. First, when we try to understand any kind of norms we turn them into normative facts. We just handle them as facts and we search for causal chains. Second, rules and norms are based on a folk psychology and normativists usually assume that folk psychology is somehow correct. Recent progress within cognitive science shows that this assuming might be the crucial problem. I claim that in the light of cognitivist research, normativists' argumentation cannot hold anymore.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
12 Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISBN
978-1-138-93662-1
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
194-211
Number of pages of the book
272
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York and London
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