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Auteur(s) : Finlay, Stephen
Titre(s) : Confusion of tongues [Texte imprimé] : a theory of normative language / Stephen Finlay
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford moral theory
Lien à la collection : Oxford moral theory
Comprend : 1. Introduction ; 2. A Good Word to Start With ; 3. The Probable Meaning of 'Ought'
; 4. Explaining Reasons ; 5. Pragmatics and Practicality ; 6. Multiple Ends ; 7.
Categorical and Final ; 8. A Disagreeable Problem ; 9. Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index
"Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in entirely non-normative
terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory
of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different
ways it is ordinarily used. Philosophers widely maintain that analyzing normative
language as describing facts about relations cannot account for special features of
particularly moral and deliberative uses of normative language, but Stephen Finlay
argues that the End-Relational theory systematically explains these on the basis of
a single fundamental principle of conversational pragmatics. These challenges comprise
the central problems of metaethics, including the connection between normative judgment
and motivation, the categorical character of morality, the nature of intrinsic value,
and the possibility of normative disagreement. Finlay's linguistic analysis has deep
implications for the metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology of morality, as well
as for the nature and possibility of normative ethical theory. Most significantly
it supplies a nuanced answer to the ancient Euthyphro Question of whether we desire
things because we judge them good, or vice versa. Normative speech and thought may
ultimately be just a manifestation of our nature as intelligent animals motivated
by contingent desires for various conflicting ends"
Sujet(s) : Pragmatisme (philosophie)
Norme (morale)
Analyse linguistique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199347490 (hardback). - ISBN 0199347492 (hardback) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43775102q
Notice n° :
FRBNF43775102
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