Normativity and the Problem of Representation

Matthew S. Bedke is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He specializes in meta-ethics and meta-normativity and his work addresses topics such as the nature and psychology of normativity, debunking arguments in ethics, and motivational internalism.Stefan Sciaraffa is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. He specializes in political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and metaethics. His work addresses the institutional structures, attitudes, behaviours, practical reasoning, and discourse that constitute relationships of political community.

• 1. Gripped by authority 2. Expressivism, meaning, and all that 3. Relativism and the expressivist bifurcation 4. Perspectival representation and fallacies in metaethics 5. Two nondescriptivist views of normative and evaluative statements 6. The unity of moral attitudes: recipe semantics and credal exaptation 7. Neo-pragmatism, morality, and the specification problem 8. Building bridges with words: an inferential account of ethical univocity 9. Keeping track of what’s right 10. Solving the problem of creeping minimalism 11. The real and the quasi-real: problems of distinction 12. Representing ethical reality: a guide for worldly non-naturalists 13. A semantic challenge to non-realist cognitivism 14. Moral supervenience 15. Why conceptual competence won’t help the non-naturalist epistemologist