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Timmons defends a metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances what he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, a view that employs semantic contextualism in giving an account of moral discourse. This view, which like traditional non-descriptivist views stresses the practical, action-guiding function of moral thought and discourse, also allows that moral sentences, as typically used, make genuine assertions. Timmons then defends a contextualist moral epistemology thus completing his overall program of contextualism in ethics.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Morality Without Foundations
• Subtitle: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism
• Author: Mark Timmons
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780195117318
• ISBN: 019511731X
• ID: 04514339
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 164 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 1999

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