Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-215) and index.
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What is the problem of normativity? -- The conflict with science and social science -- A paradigm case: the normativity of the law -- Lustral rites and systems of concepts -- Communities, collective intentions, and group reactions -- Rationality or intelligibility.
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"Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how this pattern depends on circularities, preferred descriptions, problematic transcendental arguments, and regress arguments ending in mysteries."--Jacket.