Citation

Holton R. Philos. Stud. 2010; 151(3): 449-457.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Springer)

DOI

10.1007/s11098-010-9550-z

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Ralph Wedgwood has written a big book: not in terms of pages (though there are plenty) but in terms of scope and ambition. Scope, in that he addresses many of the central issues around normativity, providing an account of the semantics of 'ought', and then a metaphysics and an epistemology to go with it; ambition in that so much of this is novel. Along the way there are myriad discussion of relevant philosophical background issues and of methodology.Amongst such riches, my focus here will of necessity be limited. I shall concentrate on the first part of Wedgwood's book, where he pursues a three part strategy in which he aims to:identify a notion of judgment internalism that captures the essence of 'ought';build a semantics on the basis of it;identify a logic of 'ought' on the basis of this semantics.So there are two crucial transitions, which I shall take in turn: from internalism to the semantics, and from the semantics to the logic. Wedgwood's aim throughout is to produce...

Language: en