VÃ yrynen argues that thick concepts -- such as lewd and rude, selfish and cruel, courageous and kind -- are evaluative only as a matter of pragmatics. If thick concepts are not inherently evaluative in meaning, they cannot have the deep and distinctive significance they are often given in moral philosophy.
VÃ yrynen argues that thick concepts -- such as lewd and rude, selfish and cruel, courageous and kind -- are evaluative only as a matter of pragmatics. If thick concepts are not inherently evaluative in meaning, they cannot have the deep and distinctive significance they are often given in moral philosophy.
Pekka Väyrynen is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leeds
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Contents 1 Why Thick Concepts Matter 1.1 A Brief Preview 1.2 The Intuitive Distinction 1.3 Two Questions about the Thick 1.4 Thick Matters 1.5 Looking Ahead 2 Thick Concepts, Meaning and Evaluation 2.1 What is Evaluation? 2.2 What is Meaning? 2.3 What Count as Thick Terms and Concepts? 2.4 Global vs. Embedded Evaluations 3 Against the Semantic View I: The Data 3.1 Methodology: A Quick Overview 3.2 Objectionable Thick Terms and Concepts 3.3 Evaluations and Projection 3.4 Evaluations and Deniability 3.5 Conclusion 4 Against the Semantic View II: Against Rival Explanations 4.1 Three False Starts 4.2 Unwanted Implicatures? 4.3 Empty Thick Concepts? 4.4 Inverted-Commas Uses of Thick Terms? 4.5 Deniability and Metalinguistic Negation 4.6 Conclusion 5 In Defense of the Pragmatic View 5.1 T-Evaluations and Implicature 5.2 T-Evaluations and Conventions of Use 5.3 T-Evaluations and Presupposition 5.4 T-Evaluations and Pragmatic Not-At-Issue Content 5.5 Conclusion 6 Thick Pragmatics 6.1 T-Evaluations and Parochiality 6.2 T-Evaluations and Communicative Interests 6.3 Three Objections 6.4 More on Parochiality 6.5 The Scope of the Pragmatic View 6.6 Conclusion 7 Thick Concepts and Underdetermination 7.1 Disagreement and Extension 7.2 Underdetermination and Evaluation 7.3 Underdetermination and Gradability 7.4 Explaining Underdetermination+ 7.5 Conclusion 8 Shapelessness, Disentanglement and Irreducible Thickness 8.1 The Shapelessness Thesis 8.2 Shapelessness and Outrunning 8.3 The Inseparability Thesis 8.4 Irreducibly Thick Evaluation? 8.5 Conclusion 9 Thick Concepts and Variability 9.1 The Variability Argument 9.2 Variability and Comparative Constructions 9.3 Variability in the Positive Form? 9.4 Variability and the Semantic View 9.5 Variability and Specificity 9.6 Conclusion 10 Thick Concepts: Deflating Significance 10.1 Fact-Value Distinctions 10.2 Normative Reasons 10.3 Reflection and Objectivity 10.4 Beyond the Thick/Thin Distinction 10.5 A Final Summary Appendix: A List of Named Theses Bibliography
Contents 1 Why Thick Concepts Matter 1.1 A Brief Preview 1.2 The Intuitive Distinction 1.3 Two Questions about the Thick 1.4 Thick Matters 1.5 Looking Ahead 2 Thick Concepts, Meaning and Evaluation 2.1 What is Evaluation? 2.2 What is Meaning? 2.3 What Count as Thick Terms and Concepts? 2.4 Global vs. Embedded Evaluations 3 Against the Semantic View I: The Data 3.1 Methodology: A Quick Overview 3.2 Objectionable Thick Terms and Concepts 3.3 Evaluations and Projection 3.4 Evaluations and Deniability 3.5 Conclusion 4 Against the Semantic View II: Against Rival Explanations 4.1 Three False Starts 4.2 Unwanted Implicatures? 4.3 Empty Thick Concepts? 4.4 Inverted-Commas Uses of Thick Terms? 4.5 Deniability and Metalinguistic Negation 4.6 Conclusion 5 In Defense of the Pragmatic View 5.1 T-Evaluations and Implicature 5.2 T-Evaluations and Conventions of Use 5.3 T-Evaluations and Presupposition 5.4 T-Evaluations and Pragmatic Not-At-Issue Content 5.5 Conclusion 6 Thick Pragmatics 6.1 T-Evaluations and Parochiality 6.2 T-Evaluations and Communicative Interests 6.3 Three Objections 6.4 More on Parochiality 6.5 The Scope of the Pragmatic View 6.6 Conclusion 7 Thick Concepts and Underdetermination 7.1 Disagreement and Extension 7.2 Underdetermination and Evaluation 7.3 Underdetermination and Gradability 7.4 Explaining Underdetermination+ 7.5 Conclusion 8 Shapelessness, Disentanglement and Irreducible Thickness 8.1 The Shapelessness Thesis 8.2 Shapelessness and Outrunning 8.3 The Inseparability Thesis 8.4 Irreducibly Thick Evaluation? 8.5 Conclusion 9 Thick Concepts and Variability 9.1 The Variability Argument 9.2 Variability and Comparative Constructions 9.3 Variability in the Positive Form? 9.4 Variability and the Semantic View 9.5 Variability and Specificity 9.6 Conclusion 10 Thick Concepts: Deflating Significance 10.1 Fact-Value Distinctions 10.2 Normative Reasons 10.3 Reflection and Objectivity 10.4 Beyond the Thick/Thin Distinction 10.5 A Final Summary Appendix: A List of Named Theses Bibliography
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