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dc.contributor.authorKirchin, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.submitted2017-11-01 23:55:55
dc.date.submitted2018-10-03 09:09:28
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T13:21:27Z
dc.identifier640316
dc.identifierOCN: 1011496942
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31028
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34444
dc.description.abstract"We use evaluative terms and concepts every day. We call actions right and wrong, teachers wise and ignorant, and pictures elegant and grotesque. Philosophers place evaluative concepts into two camps. Thin concepts, such as goodness and badness, and rightness and wrongness have evaluative content, but they supposedly have no or hardly any nonevaluative, descriptive content: they supposedly give little or no specific idea about the character of the person or thing described. In contrast, thick concepts such as kindness, elegance and wisdom supposedly give a more specific idea of people or things. Yet, given typical linguistic conventions, thick concepts also convey evaluation. Kind people are often viewed positively whilst ignorance has negative connotations. The distinction between thin and thick concepts is frequently drawn in philosophy and is central to everyday life. However, very few articles or books discuss the distinction. In this full-length study, Simon Kirchin discusses thin and thick concepts, highlighting key assumptions, questions and arguments, many of which have gone unnoticed. Kirchin focuses in on the debate between 'separationists' (those who think that thick concepts can be separated into component parts of evaluative, often very 'thin', content and nonevaluative content) and 'nonseparationists' (who deny this). Thick Evaluation argues for a version of nonseparationism, and in doing so argues both that many concepts are evaluative and also that evaluation is not exhausted by thin positive and negative stances."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of languageen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledgeen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherdescriptive content
dc.subject.otherevaluation
dc.subject.otherethics
dc.subject.otherthick concepts
dc.subject.otherthin concepts
dc.subject.otheraesthetics
dc.subject.otherGenus
dc.subject.otherGood and evil
dc.subject.otherNon-cognitivism
dc.subject.otherSemantics
dc.subject.otherSeparation of church and state
dc.subject.otherSpecies
dc.titleThick Evaluation
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780198803430.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydb4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1
oapen.relation.isbn9780198803430
oapen.pages224


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