The idea that intentionality cannot be captured without reference to this concept is defended in a Ralph Wedgwood book on “the nature of” this concept. McDowell’s notion that meaning involves this concept is discussed in a 2012 book by Allan Gibbard, whose book Wise Choices, Apt Feelings is subtitled for this kind of “judgment.” Four accounts of the basis of this concept – voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy – are examined in a 1996 book by a prominent Kant scholar at Harvard. That book titled for the “Sources of” this concept is by Christine Korsgaard. A branch of ethics named for this concept is sometimes called prescriptive ethics. For 10 points, name this property possessed by statements about how things [emphasize] ought to be, as opposed to descriptive statements about how things [emphasize] are. ■END■
ANSWER: normativity [or normativeness; accept The Sources of Normativity; accept Meaning and Normativity; accept Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment; accept The Nature of Normativity; prompt on norms; reject “normal” or “normality”]
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