HPS 0612 Lecture 8: Week 4 Normativism and Margolis
17 Dec 2018
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Week 4 normativism and margolis: the story so far, objectivism. Diseases can be characterized via purely objective means. Anything that fails to have the correct biological characterization is not a disease: boorse"s account. Health is objective (though valued in practice) Health is objective (though valued in practice: health. Normal functional ability for individual in reference class. Readiness of each part to perform its typical functions with typical efficiency. The state in which there is a reduction of one or more functional abilities below: disease typical efficiency, the normativist counterclaim. Objective accounts of disease are not descriptively adequate. Objectivist accounts of disease implicitly appeal to norms (boorse: normativism. Strong normativism: no descriptive component, a disease is something judged to be bad. Weak normativism: both a normative and descriptive component, a disease is something with particular physiological characteristics judged to be bad. Rejects idea that disease and health can be characterized in objective terms alone.
