Normativity and Rationality, Special issue of Disputatio, Vol II, no. 23, November 2007

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This is a special issue of Disputatio on normativity and rationality.
The idea for this volume originated after the fifth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, ECAP5, which took place in Lisbon in August of 2005. This volume collects the contributions of John Broome, Pascal Engel, Kevin Mulligan, Josep Prades and John Skoruspki, who were speakers on that occasion. The common thread in the diverse talks suggested that a volume on the topic would be of general interest. This common thread, which revealed itself naturally, testifies to issues hotly debated in recent years and also to the centrality of normativity in various philosophical areas.
Normativity is a central notion in distinct areas of philosophy,
from ethics, legal philosophy or aesthetics, to philosophy of mind, language and action. It is of special importance in accounts of rationality, either theoretical or practical, since rationality can be characterized as a system of requirements or principles.
The papers in this volume take their position within the different areas of the current debate on normativity and rationality, although naturally they do not exhaust all the different aspects of the ongoing discussion.