Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation n
Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our pro
At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore's own argume
How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on r
This book examines Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism both historically and philosophically, establishing a link between his discussions of nature and normati