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Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908–1979) was an American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics.1
He was a professor at Yale University from 1939 to 1946 and at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1977. He studied in England with Wittgenstein and G. E. Moore.
He gave the most sophisticated defense of emotivism in the post-war period. In his papers "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (1937) and "Persuasive Definitions" (1938), and his book Ethics and Language (1944), he developed a theory of emotive meaning; which he then used to provide a foundation for his theory of a persuasive definition. He furthermore advanced emotivism as a meta-ethical theory that sharply delineated between cognitive, scientific uses of language (used to state facts and to give reasons, and subject to the laws of science) and non-cognitive uses (used to state feelings and exercise influence).
His papers are collected in his 1963 book, Facts and Values.
Stevenson's daughter is the poet Anne Stevenson.
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Bibliography
- Ethics and Language (1944)
- Facts and Values (1963) ISBN 0-8371-8212-3
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References
- ^ Soames, Scott (2006), "Analytic Philosophy in America", in Misak, Cheryl, The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007. "For many years, one of America’s most well-known analytic writers in ethics was Charles Stevenson, whose 1937 'The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms,' and 1944 Ethics and Language, had become classics."
External links and sources
- The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Thomas Mautner. Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 0-14-051250-0
- Philosophy Pages: C. L. Stevenson
- Philosophy Pages: Emotivism
- Essay by Dr. Doug Portmore about Stevenson's Emotivism
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