Thesis
Subjectivist theories of normative language
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On the assumption that there are no objective normative facts, what is the best theory of normative language? I try to answer this question.
Chapter 1 argues for a presumption against noncognitivism and explains why error-theories are of limited interest: they concern adverbs and adjectives like ‘moral’, but not words like ‘ought’, ‘good’ and ‘reason’. This narrows down the options: the best subjectivist theory of normative language is a truth conditional, non-error-theoretic account...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2012-07-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Hendrik Willem Adriaan Evers
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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