#1290 Matthew Lindauer: The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Lindauer. He's an associate professor of philosophy at Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn College and the Cooney Graduate Center, and an associate professor of psychology also at the Cuney Graduate Center. And today we're going to talk about his book The Fruitfulness of Normative. concept. So Doctor Lindauer, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Thanks so much. Great to be with you. Okay, so

I mean for people who of course haven't read the book, uh what is the main argument of your book? I mean w uh what exactly do you explore there? Yeah, so As someone who um was trained at Yale in the PhD program at Yale, I was doing a lot of kind of traditional political and moral philosophy, thinking about immigration justice and our duties to the global poor. And I was also working in uh Joshua Nobes lab. And getting into kind of empirical research and I had this motivation to think about how these things can hang together.

Um and there's famously difficulty. putting these two, you know, descriptive and normative or the is aught divide, these are kind of famously difficult questions. And I guess I thought that there was a Peace missing in the discussion.

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