Sorin Baiasu s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk
Constitutivism aims to justify substantial normative standards as constitutive of practical reason. In this way, it can defend the constructivist commitment to avoiding realism and anti-realism in normative disciplines. This metaphysical debate is the perspective from which the nature of the constitutivist justification is usually discussed. In this paper, I focus on a related, but distinct, debate. My concern will not be whether the substantial normative claims asserted by the constructivist have some elements, which are not constructed, but real, given independently from us; instead, my concern will be more narrowly epistemic – whether those claims can be derived from premises, which are normatively less substantial than the normative conclusions themselves. I focus on Korsgaard’s transcendental articulation of the constitutivist argument. I conclude that more work would need to be done, in order for this argument to function as intended.
Baiasu. (2016). Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the Hat. Philosophia, 44, 1185-1208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9746-3
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 26, 2016 |
Publication Date | Sep 16, 2016 |
Journal | Philosophia |
Print ISSN | 0048-3893 |
Electronic ISSN | 1574-9274 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 44 |
Pages | 1185-1208 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9746-3 |
Keywords | Immanuel Kant, Christine Korsgaard, Michael Smith, Constitutivism, Constructivism, Transcendental argument, Anaytic/synthetic, Metaphysics |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9746-3 |
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