Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity: The Case of Historiography

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (5):331-363 (2019)
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This article tackles the problem of normativity in naturalism and considers it in the context of the philosophy of historiography. I argue that strong naturalism is inconsistent with genuine normat...

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Ontological relativity and other essays.Willard Van Orman Quine (ed.) - 1969 - New York: Columbia University Press.
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