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Zusatztext The contributions are varied, combative and intellectually high class. Informationen zum Autor Simon Kirchin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaethics (Palgrave, 2012), and the editor of Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher; Routledge, 2006), and A World without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory (with Richard Joyce' Springer, 2009). He is currently writing a book about thick and thin concepts. Klappentext An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general! evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts! such as 'brave'! or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative! and raise fascinating questions about how language works. Zusammenfassung An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Simon Kirchin: Introduction: Thick and Thin Concepts; 2 Edward Harcourt and Alan Thomas: Thick Concepts! Analysis! and Reductionism; 3 Jonathan Dancy: Practical Concepts; 4 Simon Kirchin: Thick Concepts and Thick Descriptions; 5 Debbie Roberts: It's Evaluation! only Thicker; 6 Michael Smith: On the Nature and Significance of the Distinction between Thick and Thin Ethical Concepts; 7 Simon Blackburn: Disentangling Disentangling; 8 Pekka Vayrynen: Thick Concepts and Underdetermination; 9 Matti Eklund: Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality; 10 Timothy Chappell: There are no Thin Concepts; 11 Nick Zangwill: Moral Metaphor and Thick Concepts: what Moral Philosophy can Learn from Aesthetics; 12 Eric Wiland: Williams on Thick Ethical Concepts and Reasons for Action; 13 Valerie Tiberius: Well-being! Wisdom! and Thick Theorizing: on the Division of Labor between Moral Philosophy and Positive Psychology; Index ...
