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- Makes for believing normative reasons are favouring relations that have a single, external source
- Extends divine command analysis to the entirety of the normative
- Offers a whole range of confirmed predictions about the normative aspect to reality
Part of the book series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion (PFPR)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Normative reasons are reasons to do and believe things. Intellectual inquiry seems to presuppose their existence, for we cannot justifiably conclude that we exist; that there is an external world; and that there are better and worse ways of investigating it and behaving in it, unless there are reasons to do and believe such things. But just what in the world are normative reasons? In this book a case is made for believing normative reasons are favouring relations that have a single, external source, filling this significant gap in the literature in an area within contemporary philosophy that has quickly grown in prominence. Providing a divine command metanormative analysis of normative reasons on entirely non-religious grounds, its arguments will be relevant to both secular and non-secular audiences alike and will address key issues in meta-ethics, evolutionary theory - especially evolutionary debunking threats to moral reasons and the normative more generally - and epistemology.
Authors and Affiliations
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Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Gerald K. Harrison
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Normative Reasons and Theism
Authors: Gerald K. Harrison
Series Title: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90796-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90795-6Published: 20 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08103-4Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90796-3Published: 06 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6176
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6184
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 204
Topics: Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion