Morality Without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism - Couverture rigide

Timmons, Mark

 
9780195117318: Morality Without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism
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ISBN 10 : 019511731X ISBN 13 : 9780195117318
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Timmons defends a metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances what he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, a view that employs semantic contextualism in giving an account of moral discourse. This view, which like traditional non-descriptivist views stresses the practical, action-guiding function of moral thought and discourse, also allows that moral sentences, as typically used, make genuine assertions. Timmons then defends a contextualist moral epistemology thus completing his overall program of contextualism in ethics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Timmons defends a metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances what he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, a view that employs semantic contextualism in giving an account of moral discourse. This view, which like traditional non-descriptivist views stresses the practical, action-guiding function of moral thought and discourse, also allows that moral sentences, as typically used, make genuine assertions. Timmons then defends a contextualist moral epistemology thus completing his overall program of contextualism in ethics.

Revue de presse

Throughout, Timmons' arguments are well informed, fair-minded and nearly always persuasive. I think this will be one of the most admired books in contemporary meta-ethics. (Brad Hooker, Phil Quart. Vol.51, No.202, Jan 2001.)

This book deserves to be studied by everyone interested in the semantics and epistemology of ethics. (Brad Hooker, Phil Quart. Vol.51, No.202, Jan 2001.)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019511731X
ISBN 13 
9780195117318
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2004
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