Matthew Chrisman
The Meaning of 'Ought'
Matthew Chrisman · 2015
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The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central part of the explanation of their meaning.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN
- 9780199363001
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