Volume 25, Number 3
September 2023
DISCUSSION

Threshold Constitutivism and Social Kinds

Volume 25, Number 3, September 2023, Pages 642–649
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v25i3.1483
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Abstract

In “Constitutivism without Normative Thresholds,” Kathryn Lindeman raises two objections to what she aptly calls Threshold Constitutivism. My aim in this short discussion is to respond to her first objection. Although I will argue that this objection fails, I will also argue that thinking through how to respond to it reminds us of something important, namely, that many of the norm-governed kinds that are directly related to intentional action are social kinds, that is, kinds whose existence conditions we ourselves collectively write. Everyone, whether constitutivist or not, needs to think seriously about what those existence conditions should be.
Copyright © 2023 Mary Clayton Coleman
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