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DESCRIPTION:Title: Oughts Without Reasons: A Defence of Primitive Normativi
 ty\n\nAbstract: Many philosophers understand the notion of normativity in 
 terms of the notions of reasons or rationality.  Talk of what we ought to 
 do\, on this conception\, is equivalent to talk of what we have reason to 
 do\, or what is rational to do.  I argue against this conception by appeal
 ing to what I call “primitive normativity”: a kind of normativity whos
 e recognition does not depend on antecedent grasp of rules or on the recog
 nition of reasons.  I motivate the idea of primitive normativity by consid
 ering both language-learning and concept-acquisition in small children and
  Wittgenstein's discussion of "knowing how to go on" in one's use of a wor
 d.  I argue that\, for both adults and children\, grasp of concepts and\, 
 a fortiori\, grasp of reasons depends on this form of normativity.  This s
 peaks against the view that normativity as such is essentially a matter of
  reasons.
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SUMMARY:The Department of Philosophy Presents Hannah Ginsborg-April 10\, 20
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 presents-hanna-ginsborg-april-10-2026
CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Symposia\, Etc.
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