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Fittingness
Author(s) -
Howard Christopher
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12542
Subject(s) - normative , relation (database) , relevance (law) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , law , computer science , political science , database
The normative notion of fittingness figures saliently in the work of a number of ethical theorists writing in the late nineteenth and mid‐twentieth centuries and has in recent years regained prominence, occupying an important place in the theoretical tool kits of a range of contemporary writers. Yet the notion remains strikingly undertheorized. This article offers a (partial) remedy. I proceed by canvassing a number of attempts to analyze the fittingness relation in other terms, arguing that none is fully adequate. In explaining why various analyses of fittingness fail, I draw into relief certain of the relation's constitutive features and spotlight some of its interesting and important connections to various other properties. Along the way, I highlight the relation's relevance to a number of ongoing debates in normative and metanormative philosophy. I conclude by indicating some directions for further research.

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