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Ethics and Language

Overview

Ethics and Language is a 1944 book by C. L. Stevenson which was influential in furthering the metaethical view of emotivism first espoused by A. J. Ayer. Yale University, where Stevenson lectured, did not approve of the contents of the book, as a result his lecture position was not renewed.

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Philosophers who discussed Ethics and Language

• Charles Stevenson (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Metaethics
• A. J. Ayer
• Emotivism
• Yale University
• Charles Stevenson (philosopher)

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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