Inviting complementary perspectives on situated normativity in everyday life

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-73

  Klaassen, Pim ^a   Rietveld, Erik ^b   Topal, Julien ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directed discontent; Instinctive normative action; Philosophy and neuroscience; Valence; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349115155     PISSN: 15687759     EISSN: 15728676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-009-9133-7     Document Type: Article

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