Ethics, Persuasion and Truth

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Interlude On the Naturalistic Fallacy 3. Why Moral Language? 4. Considerations About the Semantics of ‘Ought’ 5. Goodness 6. Ethics, Truth and Fact 7. ‘Ought’, ‘Can’, Free Will and Responsibility 8. Ethics, Science and Metaphysics

About the author

J. J. C. Smart was Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University

Summary

Originally published in 1984, deals with meta-ethics – that is the semantics and pragmatics of ethical language. This book eschews the notions of meaning and analyticity on which meta-ethics normally depends.

Product details

• Authors: J. J. C. Smart, J.J.C. Smart
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.06.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780367507657
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50765-7
• Pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Meta-Ethics, ethical responsibility, naturalistic fallacy, free will debate, philosophy of moral language, semantic analysis ethics