Normative Reasons and Theism

• Main Author: Harrison, Gerald K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Ethics.; Epistemology.; Religion-Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.

Normative reasons are reasons to do and believe things. Intellectual inquiry seems to presuppose their existence, for we cannot justifiably conclude that we exist; that there is an external world; and that there are better and worse ways of investigating it and behaving in it, unless there are reaso...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Question
• 2. Normativity
• 3. Mentality
• 4. Unity
• 5. Externality
• 6. Mente Divina
• 7. Euthyphro
• 8. Predictions
• 9. A miscellany of objections
• 10. Conclusion
• Index.