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Meaning of 'Ought'

Matthew Chrisman

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  • 2015
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. In this book Matthew Chrisman 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. This is a metanormative account that agrees with traditional descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth-conditions of normative sentences is a central part of the explanation of their meaning. But Chrisman argues that this leaves important metasemantic questions about what it is in virtue of which ought-sentences have the meanings that they have unanswered. His appeal to inferentialism aims to provide a viable anti-descriptivist but also anti-expressivist answer to these questions.
  • Författare: Matthew Chrisman
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780199363001
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-11-05
  • Förlag: Oxford University Press Inc