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Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way argue that fittingness is the key to understanding the normative domainthe domain of reasons, obligations, and value. They develop and defend a novel ''fittingness first'' approach, on which fittingness is a normatively basic property and all other normative properties depend on fittingness. They show how this approach illuminates central questions in ethics and epistemology.

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A model of clarity, packed with arguments. A must-read for anyone working on normativity. * Hille Paakkunainen, Syracuse University *
This excellent book offers the most comprehensive and compelling development to date of the important fittingness-first approach to normative theorizing. It is essential reading for philosophers interested in the nature of normative reasons and normativity more broadly. * Justin Snedegar, University of St. Andrews *

Getting Things Right

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 28 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9780198810322
      978-0198810322
      ISBN-10 0198810326

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way argue that fittingness is the key to understanding the normative domainthe domain of reasons, obligations, and value. They develop and defend a novel ''fittingness first'' approach, on which fittingness is a normatively basic property and all other normative properties depend on fittingness. They show how this approach illuminates central questions in ethics and epistemology.

      Trade Review
      A model of clarity, packed with arguments. A must-read for anyone working on normativity. * Hille Paakkunainen, Syracuse University *
      This excellent book offers the most comprehensive and compelling development to date of the important fittingness-first approach to normative theorizing. It is essential reading for philosophers interested in the nature of normative reasons and normativity more broadly. * Justin Snedegar, University of St. Andrews *

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