Nature and Normativity

Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described in the language of physics on the other.

Mark Okrent is Professor of Philosophy at Bates College, USA. He is the author of two books, Heidegger's Pragmatism: Understanding, Being, and the Critique of Metaphysics (1988) and Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality (2007). He has also published on a wide range of topics, including intentionality, teleology, Pragmatism, Heidegger, Davidson, Kant, and Hegel, among others.

1. Norms and the Response to Norms 2. Life and Teleology 3. Building an Instrumentally Rational Agent 4. Social Animals and Non-Instrumental Norms 5. Distinctive Human Abilities: Practical Reason and Responding to Types 6. Language and the Ability to Criticize Norms 7. Warrant and Truth