Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity

This volume investigates forms of normativity through the phenomenological methods of description, analysis, and interpretation. It takes a broad approach to norms, covering not only rules and commands but also goals, values, and passive drives and tendencies.

Autorentext

Sara Heinämaa is Academy Professor (20172021) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Mirja Hartimo is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Ilpo Hirvonen is a Doctoral Student of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Inhalt

Introduction

Sara Heinämaa, Mirja Hartimo, and Ilpo Hirvonen

I. Basic Perspectives

1. Varieties of Normativity: Norms, Goals, Values

Sara Heinämaa

2. Methodological Atheism: An Essay in the Second-Person Phenomenology of Commitment

Steven Crowell

3. What Is Moral Normativity? A Phenomenological Critique and Redirection of Korsgaard's Normative Question

Fredrik Westerlund

4. Husserl on Specifically Normative Concepts

Andrea Staiti

II. From Perception to Imagination

5. On the Phenomenology and Normativity of Multisensory Perception: Husserlian and Merleau-Pontian Analyses

Maxime Doyon

6. Normativity in Perception

Frode Kjosavik

7. The Role of Instincts in Husserl's Account of Reason

Julia Jansen

8. The Normativity of the Imagination: Its Critical Import

Smaranda Aldea

III. Social Dimensions

9. "Feckless Prisoners of Their Times": Historicism and Moral Reflection

David R. Cerbone

10. (Re)turning to Normality? A Bottom-Up Approach to Normativity

Maren Wehrle

11. Phenomenology of Culture and Cultural Norms

Timo Miettinen

12. Epistemic Norms and Their Phenomenological Critique

Mirja Hartimo