Thick Ethical Concepts
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Pazifisten und deren Gegner streiten sich meist nicht bloß über moralische, sondern auch über faktisch-deskriptive Fragen. Zum Beispiel sind beide Seiten bei der Kosovo-Krise (1998/9) zu völlig entgegengesetzten Beschreibungen gekommen.... more
A term expresses a thick concept if it expresses a specific evaluative concept that is also substantially descriptive. It is a matter of debate how this rough account should be unpacked, but examples can help to convey the basic idea.... more
Was wissen Sie über Kosovo? Nicht genug. Nicht genug jedenfalls über objektive, wertfrei vorgegebene Fakten, mit deren Hilfe man verantwortungsethische Bewertungen des NATO-Angriffs begründen könnte. Trotzdem halte ich drei wertende... more
This paper proposes a new Separabilist account of thick concepts, called the Expansion View (or EV). According to EV, thick concepts are expanded contents of thin terms. An expanded content is, roughly, the semantic content of a... more
The purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, I investigate the question whether the evaluative component of thick concepts is an implicature, a pragmatic enrichment or is part of the semantics of language. Second, I argue that... more
I consider how to do sociological things with thick concepts, what's the relation between thick concepts and social facts, what's unique about thick concepts, and what's unique about creatures in whose lives there are thick concepts.
Moral particularism, on some interpretations, is committed to a shapeless thesis: the moral is shapeless with respect to the natural. (Call this version of moral particularism ‘shapeless moral particularism’). In more detail, the... more
In his book What We Owe to Each Other, Thomas Scanlon proposes what he calls a ‘contractualist’ explanation of what he describes as ‘a central part of the territory called morality’, i.e. our duties to other rational creatures. If Scanlon... more
Anmerkung: Für diese (außerhalb des Netzes unveröffentlichte) deutsche Übersetzung des Aufsatzes "Reconstructing Pacifism" habe ich mich nicht akribisch ans englische Original gehalten; zudem wurde das Literaturverzeichnis stellenweise... more
1 Thick Evaluation, by Simon Kirchin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 198 Separationism holds that thick concepts, like COURAGE, are composed of thin concepts (e.g. GOOD) along with nonevaluative concepts. Simon Kirchin... more
Väyrynen's book is a comprehensive and detailed discussion of thick ethical concepts, utilizing the toolkit of philosophy of language and linguistics to argue that these concepts do not have the philosophical significance normally... more
In his book What We Owe to Each Other, Thomas Scanlon proposes what he calls a ‘contractualist’ explanation of what he describes as ‘a central part of the territory called morality’, i.e. our duties to other rational creatures. If Scanlon... more