Morality without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism
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In this book 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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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Mark Timmons
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195344288
- Release date
- 1998
