Moral Language - Hardcover

Mary Forrester

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299086305 ISBN 13: 9780299086305

Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982

Synopsis

Widespread disagreements about matters of right and wrong have led many philosophers and non-philosophers to conclude that moral knowledge is impossible. Nevertheless, we all make moral pronouncement every day. In this book, Mary Gore Forrester considers the nature of the language we use in ordinary life to make those moral evaluations, what that language indicates about the criteria we use for making such evaluations, and the conditions for determining the truth or falsity of moral evaluations. Specialists in ordinary language philosophy will enjoy Forrester's arguments to the effect that the descriptivist's position on moral language is correct and that non-descriptivist positions on the matter can be disproved.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Gore Forrester's work has appeared in the "Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, "and" History and Theory. "

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0299086305
• ISBN 13: 9780299086305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240