Emotion, Truth and Meaning In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson
The aim of this book is to defend the Emotive Theory of Ethics, and, in particular, the versions of that theory proposed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and by C. L. Stevenson in Ethics and Language (1944). For those readers who are familiar with the conventional history of Twentie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Original Emotive Theory
- 2. Criticism of the Original Emotive Theory
- 3. Prescriptivity
- 4. Universalisability
- 5. Imagination, Sympathy and Decisions of Principle
- 6. An Emotive Theory of Moral Psychology
- 7. The Psychologically Filled-Out Theory
- References
- Author Index