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Ralph Wedgwood

Disciplines:
ethics
epistemology
ethics/metaethics

Summary

British philosopher who has worked on the nature of normative reasons, practical and theoretical rationality, and the relationship between ethics and metaethics.

Core Contribution

The Nature of Normativity: develops a rationalist account of normative reasons — reasons are facts about what is rational for an agent given their situation. Contributed to debates about epistemic rationality and the normativity of belief.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Nature of Normativity

Historical Influences

Derek Parfit T.M. Scanlon

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Ethics Metaethics

Contemporaries & Peers

John BroomeDerek Parfit

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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