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Normative Role (normative + role)

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I,What is the Normative Role of Logic?

ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2009
Hartry Field
The paper tries to spell out a connection between deductive logic and rationality, against Harman's arguments that there is no such connection, and also against the thought that any such connection would preclude rational change in logic. One might not need to connect logic to rationality if one could view logic as the science of what preserves truth by a certain kind of necessity (or by necessity plus logical form); but the paper points out a serious obstacle to any such view. [source]

II,What is the Normative Role of Logic?

ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2009
Peter Milne
In making assertions one takes on commitments to the consistency of what one asserts and to the logical consequences of what one asserts. Although there is no quick link between belief and assertion, the dialectical requirements on assertion feed back into normative constraints on those beliefs that constitute one's evidence. But if we are not certain of many of our beliefs and that uncertainty is modelled in terms of probabilities, then there is at least prima facie incoherence between the normative constraints on belief and the probability-like structure of degrees of belief. I suggest that the norm-governed practice relating to degrees of belief is the evaluation of betting odds. [source]

Korsgaard's Private-Reasons Argument,

PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2002
JOSHUA GERT
In The Sources of Normativity, Christine Korsgaard presents and defends a neo-Kantian theory of normativity. Her initial account of reasons seems to make them dependent upon the practical identity of the agent, and upon the value the agent must place on her own humanity. This seems to make all reasons agent-relative. But Korsgaard claims that arguments similar to Wittgenstein's private-language argument can show that reasons are in fact essentially agent-neutral. This paper explains both of Korsgaard's Wittgen-steinian arguments, and shows why neither of them work. The paper also provides a brief sketch of a different Wingensteinian account of reasons that distinguishes the normative role of justification from that of requirement. On this account, the real agent-neutrality of reasons applies to their justificatory role, but not to their requiring role. [source]

The Farm Journal's Discourse of Farm Women's Femininity

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2004
Jane Adams
During the 1950s, U.S. farm women's normative roles and self-identities changed from that of hard working, petty-commodity-producing "housekeepers" to that of unproductive, consuming "homemakers." This article analyzes the way the Farm Journal constructed and promoted new roles for farm women at a time when farm families were negotiating the radical disruptions of farm and rural community after World War II,constructions that contributed to a hegemonic consensus that systematically excluded and rendered invisible large portions of farm women's daily lives. [source]