The meaning of 'ought' : beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics /

The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have....

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Beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics
1. Verfasser:
Chrisman, Matthew
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central part of the explanation of their meaning.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages).
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-046362-7
0-19-936302-1
0-19-936301-3
Schlagworte:
Expressivism (Ethics)
Ethics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Emotivism.
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