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The lewd, the rude, and the nasty : a study of thick and thin concepts /
"In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the courageous and the kind--concepts that somehow combine evaluation and non-evaluative description. Thick concept...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Oxford moral theory
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why Thick Concepts Matter. A Brief Preview ; The Intuitive Distinction ; Two Questions about the Thick ; Thick Matters ; Looking Ahead
- Thick Concepts, Meaning and Evaluation. What is Evaluation? ; What is Meaning? ; What Count as Thick Terms and Concepts? ; Global vs. Embedded Evaluations
- Against the Semantic View I : The Data. Methodology : A Quick Overview ; Objectionable Thick Terms and Concepts ; Evaluations and Projection ; Evaluations and Deniability ; Conclusion
- Against the Semantic View II : Against Rival Explanations. Three False Starts ; Unwanted Implicatures? ; Empty Thick Concepts? ; "Inverted-Commas" Uses of Thick Terms? ; Deniability and Metalinguistic Negation ; Conclusion
- In Defense of the Pragmatic View. T-Evaluations and Implicature ; T-Evaluations and Conventions of Use ; T-Evaluations and Presupposition ; T-Evaluations and Pragmatic Not-At-Issue Content ; Conclusion
- Thick Pragmatics. T-Evaluations and Parochiality ; T-Evaluations and Communicative Interests ; Three Objections ; More on Parochiality ; The Scope of the Pragmatic View ; Conclusion
- Thick Concepts and Underdetermination. Disagreement and Extension ; Underdetermination and Evaluation ; Underdetermination and Gradability ; Explaining Underdetermination+ ; Conclusion
- Shapelessness, Disentanglement and Irreducible Thickness. The Shapelessness Thesis ; Shapelessness and Outrunning ; The Inseparability Thesis ; Irreducibly Thick Evaluation? ; Conclusion
- Thick Concepts and Variability. The Variability Argument ; Variability and Comparative Constructions ; Variability in the Positive Form? ; Variability and the Semantic View ; Variability and Specificity ; Conclusion
- Thick Concepts : Deflating Significance. Fact-Value Distinctions ; Normative Reasons ; Reflection and Objectivity ; Beyond the Thick-Thin Distinction ; A Final Summary.