The meaning of 'ought' [electronic resource] : beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics / Matthew Chrisman.
2015
BJ1500.E94 C47 2015eb
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The meaning of 'ought' [electronic resource] : beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics / Matthew Chrisman.
Author
Chrisman, Matthew, author.
ISBN
9780199363025 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199363001 doi
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BJ1500.E94 C47 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
170.42
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
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Oxford moral theory.
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Meaning of 'ought'.
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