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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 (10[1])of the basis of this concept voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and (10[1])the appeal to autonomy are examined in a 1996 book by a prominent Kant scholar at Harvard. That (10[1])book titled (10[1])for the “Sources of” (10[1])this (10[2])concept (10[2])is by Christine Korsgaard. (10[1])A branch of ethics named for this concept is sometimes called prescriptive (-5[1])ethics. (10[1])For 10 points, name this property possessed by statements about how things (10[1])[emphasize] ought (-5[1])to be, (10[3]-5[2])as opposed to descriptive (-5[1])statements about how things (10[1])[emphasize] are. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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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