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Author:   Simon Kirchin (University of Kent)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.532kg
ISBN:  

9780199672349

ISBN 10:   0199672342
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   25 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Simon Kirchin: Introduction: Thick and Thin Concepts 2: Edward Harcourt and Alan Thomas: Thick Concepts, Analysis, and Reductionism 3: Jonathan Dancy: Practical Concepts 4: Simon Kirchin: Thick Concepts and Thick Descriptions 5: Debbie Roberts: It's Evaluation, only Thicker 6: Michael Smith: On the Nature and Significance of the Distinction between Thick and Thin Ethical Concepts 7: Simon Blackburn: Disentangling Disentangling 8: Pekka Vayrynen: Thick Concepts and Underdetermination 9: Matti Eklund: Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality 10: Timothy Chappell: There are no Thin Concepts 11: Nick Zangwill: Moral Metaphor and Thick Concepts: what Moral Philosophy can Learn from Aesthetics 12: Eric Wiland: Williams on Thick Ethical Concepts and Reasons for Action 13: Valerie Tiberius: Well-being, Wisdom, and Thick Theorizing: on the Division of Labor between Moral Philosophy and Positive Psychology Index

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Simon Kirchin's Thick Concepts is a very welcome addition to the literature. Christopher Cowie, The Times Literary Supplement

Simon Kirchin's Thick Concepts is a very welcome addition to the literature. Christopher Cowie, The Times Literary Supplement The contributions are varied, combative and intellectually high class. Edward Skidelsky, Philosophical Quarterly

Author Information

Simon Kirchin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaethics (Palgrave, 2012), and the editor of Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher; Routledge, 2006), and A World without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory (with Richard Joyce' Springer, 2009). He is currently writing a book about thick and thin concepts.

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