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SUMMARY:The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts
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DESCRIPTION:About the talk \nCan philosophical concepts do real work in im
 proving our world? Should we\, when evaluating competing understandings of
  concepts like ‘justice\,’ ‘empowerment\,’ and ‘solidarity\,’ 
 take into account whether these different understandings can actually help
  us to fight injustice\, empower the oppressed\, and promote solidarity be
 tween people? In The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts\, I make the first
  book-length attempt to argue that the answer to both of these questions i
 s an emphatic “yes\,” defending a tight relationship between philosoph
 ical theory and practice. The book advances the view that moral and politi
 cal philosophers should be and often are interested in the “fruitfulness
 ” of normative concepts – how well they help us to solve practical pro
 blems that we inevitably face as human beings interacting with one another
 . Philosophers must consult and sometimes conduct new empirical research t
 o address questions of fruitfulness\, in particular research in moral psyc
 hology. Hence\, empirical research is not merely of side interest to moral
  and political philosophy but central to the philosophical enterprise of c
 oncept evaluation in these areas. In this talk\, I will present the theory
  of normative fruitfulness developed in the book\, discuss several case st
 udies of empirical research that bears on dimensions of normative fruitful
 ness\, and discuss prominent alternative ways of viewing the relationship 
 between science and moral theory. I will also discuss how the approach tak
 en in the book is compatible with traditional a priori theorizing in gener
 al\, so long as such work makes room for empirical research to bear on fru
 itfulness considerations. \n \nAbout the speaker \nDr. Lindauer is Associa
 te Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Cente
 r\, and Associate Professor of Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, wh
 ere he co-directs the PsyPhi Lab. His work sits at the intersection of mor
 al and political philosophy and empirical moral psychology.
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