Download or read book Explaining the Normative written by Stephen P. Turner and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how this pattern depends on circularities, preferred descriptions, problematic transcendental arguments, and regress arguments ending in mysteries."--Jacket.