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Emotion, Truth and Meaning: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson
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Emotion, Truth and Meaning: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson Hardcover - 2002 - 2002nd Edition

by C. Wilks


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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 very unconventional history of Twentieth Century moral philosophy which inspired me to 'resurrect' a theory which most modem moral philosophers have long assumed to be safely dead and buried. From the very outset, the Emotive Theory (ET) was a misunderstood, misrepresented and unjustly ridiculed theory, but, contrary to what one might expect, it has, with the passing of time, become an even more misunderstood, misrepresented and unjustly ridiculed theory.

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The threefold purpose of this first chapter is (i) to synthesise an integrated summary account of the Emotive Theory from the separate versions proposed by Ayer and Stevenson; (ii) to distinguish those of its claims which contribute to its semantic thesis from those which contribute to its justificatory thesis; and (iii) to subsume its semantic thesis under its justificatory thesis.

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  • Title Emotion, Truth and Meaning: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson
  • Author C. Wilks
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2002nd
  • Edition 2002
  • Pages 243
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer
  • Date 2002-10-31
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781402009167 / 140200916X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.58 x 0.81 in (23.88 x 16.71 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ayer, A. J, Emotivism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002033981
  • Dewey Decimal Code 171.2
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