... to it. Despite this significance, the literature does not offer a satisfactory analysis of the normative structure of urgency. I examine three views of urgency, drawn from philosophical and adjacent literature, which fail to explain the distinctive criticism we face when we neglect the urgency of our reasons...

... under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract In this paper, I develop an argument against a type of Non-Analytic Normative Naturalism. This argument...

... preferred value and deontic norms (Darwall 2013 : 340–373; Wallace 2013 ). The point is often made in terms of the supererogatory: unless the very notion of supererogation is incoherent, the fact that x is good doesn’t establish that x is thereby obligatory. Moreover, many think...

... of the representations involved in emotions. For example, a defender of EFAR might hold that emotions involve normative judgements (Nussbaum 2001 ), or perceptual experiences of normative properties (Tappolet 2016 ), or sui generis normative representations (Goldie 2000 ; Mitchell 2020 ). EFAR’s flexibility...

.... This means that the normative standards they generate are global rather than local. Hence, one cannot invoke such broader notions of coherence to account for the narrower kind of coherence that structural rationality is about, on pain of changing the subject. There are attempts to explain (away...

..., in harming the interests born out of that conviction. The point of this essay is to say this more slowly. promising moral obligation normative power right normativity trust Abstract This paper develops a new theory of the morality of promissory obligations. T. M. Scanlon notoriously argued...

... epistemic criticizability as a kind of blame in its own right (Boult 2021a , 2021b ; Brown 2020 ; Piovarchy 2021 ), in addition to drawing conclusions about the nature of epistemic normativity as a result (Kauppinen forthcoming ; Schmidt 2021 ). The fact that I will be drawing on recent work...

...Samuel John Andrews To begin, when assuming realism, the demand to explain why natural properties are valuable might well be a fair one, but it is not a request a realist needs to acquiesce to. By not assuming explanatory normativity and denying premise two of the internal criticism...

...://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract My aesthetic judgements seem to make claims on you. While some popular accounts of aesthetic normativity say that the force of these claims is third-personal, I argue that it is actually second-personal...

... obligations in shared agency. Prominent views about the nature and ground of the interpersonal norms of shared agency fall into two main camps. Some theorists argue that parties to shared activities incur mutual obligations to do their respective bit just, ² or partly, ³ in virtue...

...). Absences can be statistically or prescriptively abnormal, when they diverge from statistical or prescriptive norms, but they can also be abnormal in virtue of violating norms of proper functioning or local customs. For example, my alarm clock not going off on time can cause me to be late for a meeting...

... position—partly Aristotelian, partly Wittgensteinian—can fruitfully be brought into dialogue with the conception of the formation of reason I have elsewhere sought to articulate (Bakhurst, 2011 ). On Anscombe's view, where we are seeking to elucidate and vindicate norms ‘from the point of view...

... fundamentally restructuring, the system. This comment will first follow this line of the argument and, after shortly taking up the evaluation of the Committee’s practice (2), concentrate on legitimacy (3) and normativity (4), before it concludes with some remarks on the paths for further improvement (5...

... organizations have used the global legitimacy of children’s rights to mobilize on a range of children’s rights issues as identified by Winter. Second, it is important that international human rights norms gain ‘sufficient domestic traction’ ( Simmons 2013 : 45) through domestic legal and institutional...

... and shortcomings of the 2020 Human Rights Treaty Body Review in the context of the broader discussion on human rights normativity and compliance. The unwillingness of member states to fulfil their budgetary commitments, as well as the ignorance with which some reform proposals were met, reflect a lack...

... things considered, to respond to the undefeated reason on balance. In the 1970s, Joseph Raz argued that the weighing model presents only a half-truth of the normative story and developed an alternative account of practical reason, the exclusionary model. ⁷ His model holds...

... of statutory interpretation. statutory interpretation legislation textualism legal philosophy normativity legal reasoning The semantic canons of construction, also collectively known as linguistic, textual or syntactic canons of construction, are a collection of maxims, many with Latin names...

... ( https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) meaning scepticism normativity rationality guidance semantic non-reductionism In Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Saul Kripke articulates a ‘new form of philosophical...

... for teasing out the existence, or lack of normativity in the context of energy efficiency measures. In so doing, it may help explain the differences between energy efficiency levels seen in Canada and the UK despite the relative similarity in their regulatory measures and their socio-legal context...

...), the Carlos Nino Colloquium (Torcuato Di Tella University), the Law & Philosophy Research Group Seminar Series (Pompeu Fabra University), Madrid Autonomous University, the Normative Powers in Law and Morality Conference (University of Oxford) and the New Directions in Philosophy of Law Conference...