PHILOS 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Physicists, Thomas Kuhn, Sokal Affair
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L e c t u r e 1 5. More about teaching you how to think rather than ap- plying actual material into your everyday life. Different kinds of norms (epistemic, metaphysical, etc. ) Easier to reduce norms to descriptive facts about the world. What"s special about moral normativity is that epistemic nor- mativity is pretty reducable to descriptive information about probability whereas moral normativity is not. Some should" claims suggest a particular goal (if you care about x, you should do y) In the moral case, you might think murder is just wrong (no ifs or buts) ~ moral norms are not tacitly reduced to the aims of wants, desires, goals. Has nothing to do with what is right or wrong. There might be 2 kinds of norms: unconditional & hypothetical/conditional ones. Schaffer: reduce hypothetical norms to probability and the reliability of strategies for getting you what you want (statistics)
