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Morality Without Foundations - Timmons, Mark
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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 ...

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Morality Without Foundations 1998, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195117318

Hardcover