Speech and Morality

On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking

Terence Cuneo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882325-4 (ISBN)

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Terence Cuneo presents a new argument for moral realism. According to the normative theory of speech, speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience. In doing so she takes on rights and responsibilities, some of which are moral and objective: these are a necessary condition of speech.

Terence Cuneo develops a novel line of argument for moral realism. The argument he defends hinges on the normative theory of speech, according to which speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience, gaining rights, responsibilities, and obligations of certain kinds. Some of these rights, responsibilities, and obligations, Cuneo suggests, are moral. And these moral features are best understood along realist lines, in part because they explain how it is that we can speak. If this is right, a necessary condition of being able to speak is that there are moral rights, responsibilities, and obligations of a broadly realist sort.

Terence Cuneo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont. In addition to having published a wide array of essays in the foundations of ethics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of religion, Cuneo's books include The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism (OUP, 2007), which was awarded Honorable Mention, American Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize 2007-2009, Foundations of Ethics (edited with Russ Shafer-Landau; Blackwell, 2007), and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (edited with René van Woudenberg; CUP, 2004).

Preface
1: Clarke's Insight
2: A Normative Theory of Speech
3: The Moral Dimensions of Speech
4: Against the Mixed View: Part I
5: Against the Mixed View: Part II
6: Three Antirealist Views
7: Epistemic Implications
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 234 mm
Gewicht	444 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-882325-8 / 0198823258
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882325-4 / 9780198823254
Zustand	Neuware