Emotion, Truth and Meaning In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson
The aim of this book is to defend the Emotive Theory of Ethics, and, in particular, the versions of that theory proposed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and by C. L. Stevenson in Ethics and Language (1944). For those readers who are fami
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LffiRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHIT..DSOPHY VOLUME 12
Managing Editor: Govert A. den Hartogh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
EMOTION, TRUTH AND MEANING In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson by
COLIN WILKS University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to David Dockrill, Robert Farrell, David O'Brien and John Wright for their proofreading, helpful comments and general support, and to my wife Virginia, and my children Lydia and Jack, for their invaluable support on the home front.
CONTENTS
Abbreviations IX
Introduction xi
1. The Original Emotive Theory 2.
Criticism of the Original Emotive Theory
36
3.
Prescriptivity
79
4.
Universalisability
88
5.
Imagination, Sympathy and Decisions of Principle
6. An Emotive Theory of Moral Psychology 7.
The Psychologically Filled-Out Theory
117 133 174
References
237
Author Index
241
ABBREVIATIONS
AMJ
'On the Analysis of Moral Judgements' by A. J. Ayer (in his Philosophical Essays, Macmillan, London, 1963)
AV
After Virtue by A. C. Macintyre (Second Edition, Duckworth, 1990)
CES
Communication and the Evolution of Society by J. Habermas (Heinemann Press, London, 1979)
EL
Ethics and Language by C. L. Stevenson (Yale University Press, 1950)
ET
Emotive Theory
FM
Freedom and Morality and Other Essays by A. J. Ayer (Oxford, 1984)
FR
Freedom and Reason by R. M. Hare (Oxford, 1963)
FV
Fact and Value by C. L. Stevenson (Yale University Press, 1963)
HC
Hare and Critics edited by D. Seanor and N. Potion (Oxford, 1988)
KHI
Knowledge and Human Interests by J. Habermas (Beacon Press, Boston, 1971)
LC
Legitimation Crisis by J. Habermas (Heinemann, London, 1976)
LM
The Language ofMorals by R. M. Hare (Oxford, 1952)
LTL
Language Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer (Second Edition, Penguin, 1986)
MCA
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action by J. Habermas (Polity Press, UK, 1990)
MMP
Modern Moral Philosophy (Second Edition) by W. D. Hudson, Macmillan, 1983)
MSK
Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge by R. Bambrough (Routledge and Keagan Paul, London, 1979)
MT
Moral Thinking by R. M. Hare (Oxford, 1981)
R
