Fittingness Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity

by Howard, Chris; Rowland, R. A.

• ISBN13: 9780192895882
• ISBN10: 0192895885
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Fittingness explores the nature, roles, and applications of the notion of fittingness in contemporary normative and metanormative philosophy. The fittingness relation is the relation in which a response stands to a feature of the world when that feature merits, or is worthy of, that response. In the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, this notion of fittingness played a prominent role in the theories of the period's most influential ethical theorists, and in recent years it has regained prominence, promising to enrich the theoretical resources of contemporary theorists working in the philosophy of normativity.

This volume is the first central discussion of the notion of fit to date. It is composed of seventeen new essays covering a range of topics including the nature and epistemology of fittingness, the relation between fittingness and reasons, the normativity of fittingness, fittingness and value theory, and the role of fittingness in theorizing about responsibility. In addition to making important contributions to the debates in the philosophy of normativity with which they're concerned, the essays in the volume support the hypothesis that the notion of fittingness has great theoretical utility in investigating a range of normative matters, across a variety of domains.

Author Biography

Chris Howard, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, McGill University,R. A. Rowland, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds

Christopher Howard is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He has been published in the journals Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy Compass, and Thought.

R. A. Rowland is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. They are the author of The Normative and the Evaluative: The Buck-Passing Account of Value and Moral Disagreement.

Table of Contents

Section One: Introduction
1. Fittingness: A User's Guide, Chris Howard and R. A. Rowland
Section Two: The Nature and Epistemology of Fittingness
2. The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting, Selim Berker
3. Against the Fundamentality of Fit, Thomas Hurka
4. What Is Evaluable for Fit?, Oded Na'aman
5. Fitting Emotions, Justin D'Arms
6. Intuitions of Fittingness, Philip Stratton-Lake
Section Three: Fittingness, Reasons, Normativity
7. Reasons and Fit, Garrett Cullity
8. Value-First Accounts of Reasons and Fit, R. A. Rowland
9. Feasibility and Fitting Deliberation, Nicholas Southwood
10. In Defense of the Right Kind of Reason, Chris Howard and Stephanie Leary
Section Four: Fittingness and Value Theory
11. Value and Idiosyncratic Fitting Attitudes, Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way
12. Well-Being as Fitting Happiness, Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet
13. The Things We Envy: Fitting Envy and Human Goodness, Sara Protasi
14. Response-Dependence and Aesthetic Theory, Alex King
Section Five: Fittingness and Responsibility
15. Fittingness as a Pitiful Intellectualist Trinket?, Michael McKenna
16. Blame's Commitments to Its Own Fittingness, Rachel Achs
17. Making Amends: How to Alter the Fittingness of Blame, Hannah Tierney
Index