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SUMMARY:Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspect
 ival - Denis Walsh (University of Toronto)
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CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:Oughts – not just moral oughts\, but biological oughts too 
 – make a difference to the natural world. Certain events or regularities
  occur because they ought to\; and their oughting to figures in an explana
 tion of their occurrence. In this respect\, normative properties look like
  natural properties. I attempt to locate norms in the nature. I draw on th
 e recent work in perspectival pluralism to sketch an account of what natur
 al normativity might be\, and why it fails to show up in our usual scienti
 fic accounts of the world. Normative facts\, I claim\, are constitutively 
 perspectival facts. The category of the constitutively perspectival should
  not be problematic for the naturalist. Many phenomena we accept as natura
 l – like colours – fall into it.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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