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Morality and our complicated form of life : feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics
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Morality and our complicated form of life : feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics

Author: Peg O'Connor
Publisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"A reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists"--Provided by publisher.
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Named Person: Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peg O'Connor
ISBN: 9780271033792 0271033797
OCLC Number: 191023977
Description: xiv, 178 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics? : revising the big book --
Does the fabric of the world include moral properties? : realist/antirealist debates --
Neither a realist nor an antirealist be --
Felted contextualism : heterogeneous stability --
Normativity and grammar --
Philosophical rags and mice : changing the subject in moral epistemology --
Stability and objectivity : the felted world.
Responsibility: Peg O'Connor.
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"A reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists"--Provided by publisher.

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