Thick evaluation

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The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of the crucial distinction between 'thin' and 'thick' concepts, which is fundamental to many debates in ethics, aesthetics and epistemology.

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Full title :Thick evaluation / Simon Kirchin.

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Publication Date:2017.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780192525161, 0192525166, 9780191841613, 0191841617, 0192525174, 9780192525178
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198803430.001.0001
oclc:on1011496942
LC Classification:BJ1012
Dewey Decimal:170.42

Cover; Thick Evaluation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; PART I: Understanding the Debate; 2: Separationism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Introducing Separationism; 2.3 Simple Separationism; 2.4 Two Kinds of Complex Separationism; 2.5 A Grey Area; 2.6 Some Critical Points; 2.7 Conclusion; 3: Conceptual Relations; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Genus-Species Model; 3.3 The Determinable-Determinate Model; 3.4 Are the Models Distinct?; 3.5 Evaluative Flexibility.

3.6 The Genus-Species Model and Separationism; 3.7 Nonseparationism and the Determinable-Determinate Model; 3.8 Conclusion; 4: The Thin; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Two Types of Concept?; 4.3 Back to the Distinction; 4.4 A Pause; 4.5 Gibbard and L-censoriousness; 4.6 Susan Hurley and Centralism; 4.7 Are Thin Concepts Conceptually Prior?; 4.8 Conclusion; 5: Disentangling and Shapelessness; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Cognitivism and Noncognitivism; 5.3 Shapelessness and Outrunning; 5.4 Seven Notes; 5.5 Outrunning; 5.6 A Prejudice.

5.7 A Third Option; 5.8 Conclusion and a Pause; PART II: A Positive View; 6: Thick Evaluation; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Previous Arguments; 6.3 Williams' Distinction; 6.4 Where the Slogan…

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Aesthetics descriptive content Ethics ethics (philosophy) Ethics and moral philosophy Evaluation Humanities Language linguistics Metaethics Metaethik métaéthique Morale Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Social Philosophy of language Philosophy: epistemology and theory of … thick concepts thin concepts