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Morality without Foundations

A Defense of Ethical Contextualism

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For philosophers and students of ethical theory

Clarifies moral discourse without rigid foundations

You will gain insight into modern ethical discussions

This book offers a fresh perspective on ethics through contextualism.

Timmons defends a metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances what he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, a view that employs semantic contextualism in giving an account of moral discourse. This view, which like traditional non-descriptivist views stresses the practical, action-guiding function of moral thought and discourse, also allows that moral sentences, as typically used, make genuine assertions. Timmons then defends a contextualist moral epistemology thus completing his overall program of contextualism in ethics.
Morality without Foundations and The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology
The Routledge Handbook of Moral EpistemologyMorality without Foundations

  • Title

    Morality without Foundations

  • Author

    Mark Timmons

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 1999

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195117318

  • ISBN-10

    019511731X

  • Eden Code

    4562192

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