Colloque

Two Forms of Norms

David Sosa

Membre a labase

David Sosa

Résumé de la communication

In action, as well as in the formation of belief, we can be subject to evaluation for proceeding as we do. Our beliefs can be unjustified, just as our action can be found to fall short relative to a corresponding norm. The very idea of normativity is more general than its more particular deployment in either ethics or epistemology. And indeed, in both areas there is a similar dispute: could any norm to which we are subject be “alien” to us, emerging from circumstances that are in principle beyond us, possibly unknowable or out of our control? In epistemology, the debate between internalist foundationalists and coherentists on one hand and externalist reliabilists on the other can be framed in those terms. And in ethics, one can fit the opposition between Kantian deontologism and views deriving from Mill’s Utilitarianism into that mold too. But consideration of the character of normative constraint will reveal that internalist and externalist conceptions of normativity are not so much competing perspectives on a single univocal phenomenon as they are independent understandings of two fundamentally distinct phenomena. It is in the nature of humans as persons that they be subject to a distinctive form of norm.

Résumé du colloque

Nous tiendrons notre assemblée générale annuelle en marge du colloque, mais également nous offrirons un cocktail et un buffet à nos invités, après l’assemblée générale en début de soirée lors de l’avant dernière journée. Nous décernerons également un prix pour la meilleure communication étudiante (1er et 2e prix), attribué lors de cette soirée.