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Thick concepts / edited by Simon Kirchin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mind Association occasional series.
- Mind association occasional series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Introduction: Thick and Thin Concepts""; ""2. Thick Concepts, Analysis, and Reductionism""; ""3. Practical Concepts""; ""4. Thick Concepts and Thick Descriptions""; ""5. It�s Evaluation, Only Thicker""; ""6. On the Nature and Significance of the Distinction between Thick and Thin Ethical Concepts""; ""7. Disentangling Disentangling""; ""8. Thick Concepts and Underdetermination""; ""9. Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality""; ""10. There Are No Thin Concepts""
- ""11. Moral Metaphor and Thick Concepts: What Moral Philosophy Can Learn from Aesthetics""""12. Williams on Thick Ethical Concepts and Reasons for Action""; ""13. Well-being, Wisdom, and Thick Theorizing: on the Division of Labor between Moral Philosophy and Positive Psychology""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""Index of Notable Examples""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""T""
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- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-165250-4
- OCLC:
- 922971901
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