Morality Without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism - Rilegato

Timmons, Mark

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ISBN 10: 019511731X ISBN 13: 9780195117318

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1999

Riassunto

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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Recensione

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.)

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019511731X
• ISBN 13: 9780195117318
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Contatto del produttore: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Germania