Defense of Liberal General Skepticism Against Reaso
Vadakin, Aron
This dissertation is an enquiry into normative authority-that is, the enquiry into reasons. The project is motivated by a collection of tensions. I accept a variety of naturalism, however, this leads straightforwardly to a problem: I see no place for normative reasons in a naturalistic framework. Certain non-negotiable platitudes of normative authority cannot be satisfied on a naturalistic view of the world. If anything were to satisfy the pla...