Cover Image

Emotion, Truth and Meaning : In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson /

Show other versions (1)

The Emotive Theory was theory ahead of its time, and a theory which was, perhaps understandably, misinterpreted, misrepresented, and ridiculed by its critics from the outset. In Emotion, Truth and Meaning, Dr Wilks not only acquaints the reader with what the original emotivists actually claimed (and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilks, C. R. (Colin Reginald)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Library of ethics and applied philosophy ; 12.
Subjects:
Philosophy (General)
Ethics.
Ontology.
Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Original Emotive Theory
  • 2. Criticism of the Original Emotive Theory
  • 3. Prescriptivity
  • 4. Universalisability
  • 5. Imagination, Sympathy and Decisions of Principle
  • 6. An Emotive Theory of Moral Psychology
  • 7. The Psychologically Filled-Out Theory
  • References
  • Author Index.