Ethics and Language

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Third printing, August 1947. xi, 338 pages. index. Green boards with bright gold spine lettering. Former owners name on the ffep and some penciled marginalia. The dust jacket is toned with edge wear and insect damage through to the spine (not involving lettering). Now in archival cover. "Stevenson's work has been seen both as an elaboration upon Ayer's views and as a representation of one of "two broad types of ethical emotivism." An analytic philosopher, Stevenson suggested in his 1937 essay "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" that any ethical theory should explain three things: that intelligent disagreement can occur over moral questions, that moral terms like good are "magnetic" in encouraging action, and that the scientific method is insufficient for verifying moral claims. Stevenson's own theory was fully developed in his 1944 book Ethics and Language. In it, he agrees with Ayer that ethical sentences express the speaker's feelings, but he adds that they also have an imperative component intended to change the listener's feelings and that this component is of greater importance." Wikipedia. ; 8vo .