Vayrynen, PP (2012) Thick Concepts: Where's Evaluation? In: Shafer-Landau, R, (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 7. Oxford University Press , 235 - 270. ISBN 9780199653492
Abstract
This paper presents an alternative to the standard view that the evaluations that the so-called "thick" terms and concepts in ethics may be used to convey belong to their sense or semantic meaning. I describe a large variety of linguistic data that are well explained by the alternative view that the evaluations that (at least a very wide range of) thick terms and concepts may be used to convey are a certain kind of defeasible implications of their utterances which can be given a conversational explanation. I then provide some reasons to think that this explanation of the data is superior to the standard view, but a fuller assessment must await further work. In closing I briefly survey the largely deflationary consequences of this account regarding the significance of thick terms and concepts for evaluative thought and judgment.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Thick Concepts; Moral Semantics; Pragmatics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2013 11:48 |
Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2015 21:26 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653492... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653492.003.0008 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76772 |