Much in our lives, individual and communal, is structured around the practices of making evaluative and prescriptive judgements, individually or collectively. “Normativity” designates what is distinctive of such practices insofar as they involve the (sometimes implicit) use of *things* (all sorts of things) as evaluative or prescriptive norms or standards. This seminar will be a survey of a number of questions of and approaches to normativity, problems such as the relation between normality and normativity; how to distinguish between different types of normativity and of norms; what the ‘sources’ of different types of normativity are, and relatedly, about the metaphysical status of various types of normativity. Some of the authors we will read in the course are Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Canguilhem, Foucault, Frege, MacFarlane, Wittgenstein, Goodman, David Gauthier, Korsgaard, Kolodny and Ruth Chang.