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Replacing Ethics with Metaethics: Emotivism and Its Critics

© 2018 Princeton University Press, Princeton

© 2018 Princeton University Press, Princeton

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. PART ONE. THE TRACTATUS: LANGUAGE, MIND AND THE WORLD
  5. The Abbreviated Metaphysics of the Tractatus 3
  6. The Single Great Problem of the Tractatus: Propositions 24
  7. The Logic of the Tractatus 55
  8. The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences 88
  9. PART TWO. A NEW CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND SCIENCE
  10. The Roots of Logical Empiricism 107
  11. Carnap’s Aufbau 129
  12. The Heyday of Logical Empiricism 160
  13. Advances in Logic: Gödel, Tarski, Church, and Turing 199
  14. Tarski’s Definition of Truth and Carnap’s Embrace of “Semantics” 236
  15. Analyticity, Necessity, and A Priori Knowledge 288
  16. The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning 311
  17. PART THREE: IS ETHICS POSSIBLE?
  18. Ethics as Science 337
  19. Replacing Ethics with Metaethics: Emotivism and Its Critics 353
  20. Normative Ethics and Cognitivist Metaethics in the Age of Emotivism: H. A. Prichard and W. D. Ross 375
  21. References 409
  22. Index 419
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2
This chapter is in the book The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887927-014

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. PART ONE. THE TRACTATUS: LANGUAGE, MIND AND THE WORLD
  5. The Abbreviated Metaphysics of the Tractatus 3
  6. The Single Great Problem of the Tractatus: Propositions 24
  7. The Logic of the Tractatus 55
  8. The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences 88
  9. PART TWO. A NEW CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND SCIENCE
  10. The Roots of Logical Empiricism 107
  11. Carnap’s Aufbau 129
  12. The Heyday of Logical Empiricism 160
  13. Advances in Logic: Gödel, Tarski, Church, and Turing 199
  14. Tarski’s Definition of Truth and Carnap’s Embrace of “Semantics” 236
  15. Analyticity, Necessity, and A Priori Knowledge 288
  16. The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning 311
  17. PART THREE: IS ETHICS POSSIBLE?
  18. Ethics as Science 337
  19. Replacing Ethics with Metaethics: Emotivism and Its Critics 353
  20. Normative Ethics and Cognitivist Metaethics in the Age of Emotivism: H. A. Prichard and W. D. Ross 375
  21. References 409
  22. Index 419
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