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Emotion, Truth and Meaning
Colin Wilks
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Hardback. The Emotive Theory was theory ahead of its time, and a theory, which was misinterpreted, misrepresented, and ridiculed by its critics from the outset. This book aims to acquaint the reader with what the original emotivists actually claimed and clarify what they actually meant when they made some of the more controversial claims. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
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 Twentieth Century moral philosophy and the infamous place which the Emotive Theory occupies in that history, the question which may well spring to mind at this point is 'Why bother?' In order to answer this question, however, I will need to provide a rough sketch of the ... Read more
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 Twentieth Century moral philosophy and the infamous place which the Emotive Theory occupies in that history, the question which may well spring to mind at this point is 'Why bother?' In order to answer this question, however, I will need to provide a rough sketch of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
Series
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402009167
SKU
V9781402009167
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99-15
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