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Fittingness

Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity

edited by Chris Howard & R.A. Rowland

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2023
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780192895882
    Publish Date
    Jan 2023
    List Price
    $165.00

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Fittingness explores the nature, roles, and applications of the notion of fittingness in contemporary normative and metanormative philosophy. The fittingness relation is the relation in which a response stands to a feature of the world when that feature merits, or is worthy of, that response. In the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, this normative notion of fittingness played a prominent role in the theories of the period's most influential ethical theorists, and in recent years has regained prominence, promising to enrich the theoretical resources of contemporary theorists working in the philosophy of normativity.

This volume is the first central discussion of the notion to date. It is composed of seventeen new essays covering a range of topics including the nature and epistemology of fittingness, the relation between fittingness and reasons, the normativity of fittingness, fittingness and value theory, and the role of fittingness in theorizing about responsibility. In addition to making important contributions to the debates in the philosophy of normativity with which they're concerned, the essays in the volume support the hypothesis that the notion of fittingness has great theoretical utility in investigating a range of normative matters, across a variety of domains.

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Contributor Notes

Christopher Howard is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He has been published in the journals Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy Compass, and Thought. R. A. Rowland is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. They are the author of The Normative and the Evaluative: The Buck-Passing Account of Value and Moral Disagreement.

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