The Meaning of 'Ought'
Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27517531M
- ISBN-139780199363001
- ISBN-100199363005
- OCLC Control Number907056289
- Library of Congress Control Number2014049697
and 1 more
- Amazon0199363005
Classifications
- LCCBJ1500.E94C47 2015
- LCCBJ1500.E94 C47 2016
Description
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central part of the explanation of their meaning.
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