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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy

Nature and Norms in Thought

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Martin Lenz

    1. University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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  2. Anik Waldow

    1. , Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Offers a critical perspective on one of the most debated issues in contemporary philosophy
  • Reveals the importance of early modern philosophy and brings together leading scholars in the field
  • Renders 17th and 18th theories of mind accessible to non-experts in the history of philosophy by focusing on one specific philosophical problem ?

Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 29)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Nature and Norms in Thought

    • Martin Lenz, Anik Waldow
    Pages 1-10

  3. Nature’s Influence on the Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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  5. Shaping the Norms of Our Intellectual and Practical Engagement with the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder

      • Stephen Gaukroger
      Pages 101-113

    3. Back to the Facts – Herder on the Normative Role of Sensibility and Imagination

      • Anik Waldow
      Pages 115-133

    4. Extending Nature: Rousseau on the Cultivation of Moral Sensibility

      • Annette Pierdziwol
      Pages 135-158

    5. The Piacular, or on Seeing Oneself as a Moral Cause in Adam Smith

      • Eric Schliesser
      Pages 159-177

    6. Explaining and Describing: Panpsychism and Deep Ecology

      • Michael Hampe
      Pages 179-202

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 203-207
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About this book

Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars in early modern philosophy and specialists in contemporary philosophy, this volume goes beyond the point where nature and normativity came apart, and challenges the well-established opposition between these all too neatly separated realms. It examines how the mind’s embeddedness in nature can be conceived as a starting point for uncovering the links between naturally and conventionally determined standards governing an agent’s epistemic and moral engagement with the world. The original essays are grouped in two parts. The first part focuses on specific aspects of theories of perception, thought formation and judgment. It gestures towards an account of normativity that regards linguistic conventions and natural constraints as jointly setting the scene for the mind’s ability to conceptualise its experiences. The second part of the book asks what the norms of desirable epistemic and moral practices are. Key to this approach is an examination of human beings as parts of nature, who act as natural causes and are determined by their sensibilities and sentiments. Each part concludes with a chapter that integrates features of the historical debate into the contemporary context.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

    Martin Lenz

  • , Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Anik Waldow

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