Veit, Walter
(2020)
Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism?
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Abstract
Since Boorse (1977) published his paper "Health as a theoretical concept" one of the most lively debates within philosophy of medicine has been on the question of whether health and disease are in some sense 'objective' and `value-free' or 'subjective' and 'value-laden'. Due to the apparent `failure' of pure naturalist, constructivist, or normativist accounts, much in the recent literature has appealed to more conciliatory approaches or so-called 'hybrid accounts' of health and disease. A recent paper by Matthewson and Griffiths (2017), however, may bear the seeds for the revival of purely naturalist approach to health and disease. In this paper, I defend their idea of Biological Normativity against recent criticism by Schwartz (2017) and hope to help it flower into a revival of naturalist approaches in the philosophy of medicine.
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