The Normative Animal?

Neil Roughley is Chair for Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He specializes in metaethics, action theory, philosophical psychology, and the theory of human nature. His historical interests include the classical figures of ethical sentimentalism, particularly Adam Smith and David Hume, as well as the history of action theory. He is author of Wanting and Intending: Elements of a Philosophy of Practical Mind (Springer Macmillan, 2015), has edited several volumes, including Forms of Fellow Feeling: Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and was recently guest editor of a special issue of Philosophical Psychology, vol. 31/5 (2018), on Tomasello's A Natural History of Human Morality.Kurt Bayertz is Senior-Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Munster. His research focuses on ethics, anthropology, and selected topics in the history of philosophy. He is author ofTechnological Intervention in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1994), among other books. His book Der aufrechte Gang ("The Upright Posture") received the Tractatus Prize for philosophy.

• Foreword Part I: Introductory1. Might We Be Essentially Normative Animals?Neil Roughley2. On Social, Moral and Linguistic Norms. The Contributions to This VolumeNeil Roughley and Kurt Bayertz Part II: Social Norms 3. There Ought to be Roots. Evolutionary Precursors of Social Norms and Conventions in Non-Human PrimatesPeter Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel and Carel van Schaik4. On the Human Addiction to Norms. Social Norms and Cultural Universals of NormativityChristoph Antweiler5. On the Identification and Analysis of Social Norms and the Heuristic Relevance of Deviant BehaviourKarl Mertens6. On the Uniqueness of Human Normative AttitudesMarco F.H. Schmidt and Hannes Rakoczy Part III: Moral Norms 7. The Evolution of Human Normativity: The Role of Prosociality and Reputation ManagementCarel van Schaik and Judith Burkart8. The Form of Morality: Its Importance and EmergenceKurt Bayertz 9. Joint Activities and Moral ObligationHolmer Steinfath10. The Development of Moral and Social Norms, Coordination in Decision-Making, and the Implications of Social OppositionElliot Turiel and Audun Dahl11. Moral Obligation from the Outside InNeil Roughley Part IV: Linguistic Norms? 12. Language Evolution and Linguistic NormsNikola Kompa 13. The Normative Nature of LanguageNick J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell14. Can there be Linguistic Norms?Anne Reboul 15. The Normativity of Meaning RevisitedHanjo Glock Part V: Afterword 16. Normative Guidance, Deontic Statuses and the Normative Animal ThesisNeil Roughley References