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Emotion, Truth and Meaning

In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson

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Authors:
  1. Colin Wilks

    1. University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

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Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 12)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Original Emotive Theory

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 1-35

  3. Criticism of the Original Emotive Theory

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 36-78

  4. Prescriptivity

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 79-87

  5. Universalisability

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 88-116

  6. Imagination, Sympathy and Decisions of Principle

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 117-132

  7. An Emotive Theory of Moral Psychology

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 133-173

  8. The Psychologically Filled-Out Theory

    • Colin Wilks
    Pages 174-236

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 237-243
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Colin Wilks

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emotion, Truth and Meaning

  • Book Subtitle: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson

  • Authors: Colin Wilks

  • Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9866-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0916-7Published: 31 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6138-6Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9866-8Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6678

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 243

  • Topics: Ethics, Ontology, Pragmatism, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy

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