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Morality without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism

By Mark Timmons

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
019511731X, 9780195176544, 0195176545, 9780195344288, 9780195117318
LCC
BJ37 .T55 1999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11783673 bytes)
Pages
280\280
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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