Ethics, Persuasion and Truth

ISBN-13: 9780367507657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

J. J. C. Smart

Opis

Originally published in 1984, deals with meta-ethics – that is the semantics and pragmatics of ethical language. This book eschews the notions of meaning and analyticity on which meta-ethics normally depends.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Interlude On the Naturalistic Fallacy 3. Why Moral Language? 4. Considerations About the Semantics of ‘Ought’ 5. Goodness 6. Ethics, Truth and Fact 7. ‘Ought’, ‘Can’, Free Will and Responsibility 8. Ethics, Science and Metaphysics

O autorze

J. J. C. Smart was Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University