The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of the crucial distinction between 'thin' and 'thick' concepts, which is fundamental to many debates in ethics, aesthetics and epistemology
The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of the crucial distinction between 'thin' and 'thick' concepts, which is fundamental to many debates in ethics, aesthetics and epistemologyHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Simon Kirchin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Kent, and is currently Dean of its Faculty of Humanities. He works mainly in ethics and metaethics and is a past President of the British Society for Ethical Theory. He is the author of Metaethics (Palgrave-Macmillan 2012) and has edited the following volumes: Thick Concepts (Oxford: OUP, 2013), A World without Values (with Richard Joyce; Springer 2010), and Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher; Routledge, 2006). He is currently editing a volume of papers on Derek Parfit's On What Matters for Routledge.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction Part One: Understanding the Debate 2: Separationism 3: Conceptual Relations 4: The Thin 5: Disentangling and Shapelessness Part Two: A Positive View 6: Thick Evaluation 7: Essentially Evaluative? 8: Understanding Others and Having Confidence 9: Evaluative Cognitivism
1: Introduction Part One: Understanding the Debate 2: Separationism 3: Conceptual Relations 4: The Thin 5: Disentangling and Shapelessness Part Two: A Positive View 6: Thick Evaluation 7: Essentially Evaluative? 8: Understanding Others and Having Confidence 9: Evaluative Cognitivism
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