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Confusion of Tongues - A Theory of Normative Language (Hardcover)
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Confusion of Tongues - A Theory of Normative Language (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Moral Theory
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Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined
in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that
they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory of the meaning of
this language as providing the best explanation of the many
different ways it is ordinarily used. Philosophers widely maintain
that analyzing normative language as describing facts about
relations cannot account for special features of particularly moral
and deliberative uses of normative language, but Stephen Finlay
argues that the End-Relational theory systematically explains these
on the basis of a single fundamental principle of conversational
pragmatics. These challenges comprise the central problems of
metaethics, including the connection between normative judgment and
motivation, the categorical character of morality, the nature of
intrinsic value, and the possibility of normative disagreement.
Finlay's linguistic analysis has deep implications for the
metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology of morality, as well as
for the nature and possibility of normative ethical theory. Most
significantly it supplies a nuanced answer to the ancient Euthyphro
Question of whether we desire things because we judge them good, or
vice versa. Normative speech and thought may ultimately be just a
manifestation of our nature as intelligent animals motivated by
contingent desires for various conflicting ends.
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