Thick Concepts

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. Edited by Simon Kirchin (2013)
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An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.

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Thick Concepts, Analysis, and Reductionism.  (pages 20-43)Edward Harcourt & Alan Thomas
Practical Concepts.  (pages 44-59)Jonathan Dancy
On the Nature and Significance of the Distinction between Thick and Thin Ethical Concepts.  (pages 97-120)Michael Smith
Disentangling Disentangling.  (pages 121-135)Simon Blackburn
Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality.  (pages 161-181)Matti Eklund
There Are No Thin Concepts.  (pages 182-196)Timothy Chappell
Well-being, Wisdom and Thick Theorizing: on the Division of Labor between Moral Philosophy and Positive Psychology.  (pages 217-233)Valerie Tiberius

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Thick Ethical Concepts.Pekka Väyrynen - 2016 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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