Graduate seminar. Recent work on the structure, nature, and basis of various normative categories, such as the evaluative (good, bad, better, and so on) and the deontic (required, permitted, forbidden, and so on). Special attention will be paid to the hypothesis that the fitting (merited, warranted, apt, and so on) is a distinct family of normative categories beyond these familiar two. Applications in ethics and epistemology will be considered. ...
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