Normative Dispositions

In this chapter, I present some examples of normative dispositionalism endorsed by some authors working in the fields of philosophy of mind and philosophy of action. I will show that the notion of normative disposition is not completely alien to philosophy, and that dispositional concepts can be used to give an account of the normativity of the intentional. Finally, I will go back to the issue of the kind of normativity presupposed in a Wittgensteinian-informed kind of dispositionalism: I will claim that the category mistake applied to dispositional terms is of the kind Wittgenstein imputes to the traditional inner-outer divide, and that dispositions can be seen in the way Wittgenstein states that we see the glance of the human eye.