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Normative realism and ontology: reply to Clarke-Doane, Rosen, and Enoch and McPherson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

T. M. Scanlon*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

In response to comments on my book, Being Realistic about Reasons, by Justin Clarke-Doane, David Enoch and Tristram McPherson, and Gideon Rosen, I try to clarify my domain-based view of ontology, my understanding of the epistemology of normative judgments, and my interpretation of the phenomenon of supervenience.

Type
Tim Scanlon's Being Realistic about Reasons; author meets critics
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2017

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