Matthew Congdon

Moral Articulation

On the Development of New Moral Concepts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores historical changes in the words and concepts we use to describe morally significant experiences and events. Focusing on cases like the invention of the term "genocide" in 1942 and the development of the concept of "sexual harassment" in 1975, Moral Articulation offers a philosophical account of the historical process of moral concept formation. Author Matthew Congdon calls this process "moral articulation." The book explores two philosophical questions raised by such examples. First: are morally meaningful experiences always capturable in words or do they sometimes extend beyond what we can make linguistically explicit? Congdon answers this by defending a theory of moral meaningfulness as extending beyond what we can express in language. Second: do new developments in moral language simply label pre-existing phenomena, or do they have transformative effects upon the experiences and situations they newly describe? Congdon answers this by defending a theory of moral truth as a complex historical result of collective efforts of articulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 147mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780197691571
• ISBN-10: 0197691579
• Artikelnr.: 68061129

Autorenporträt

Matthew Congdon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in The Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis , The European Journal of Philosophy, Episteme, and Philosophical Topics, among another publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. Changing Our Concepts
* §1.1. Discursive Breakdown
* §1.2. Meaning and Discourse
* §1.3. The Discursive Theory of Meaning as a Questionable Supposition
of Much Contemporary Ethical Theory
* §1.4. Changing Conceptual Schemes
* §1.5. The Expressive Logic of Articulation
* §1.6. Conclusion
* 2. Thinking Beyond Language
* §2.1. Concepts and Language
* §2.2. Concepts and Reality
* §2.3. Dissonance in the Space of Reasons
* 3. Creative Resentments
* §3.1. The Problem
* §3.2. Norm-Creative Resentments
* §3.3. The Prior Norm Requirement
* §3.4. The Articulation Model of Emotion
* §3.5. Conclusion
* 4. Is Morality Loopy?
* §4.1. A Problem in Critical Social Philosophy
* §4.2. Hacking on Child Abuse: A Case Study in Causal Discursive
Construction
* §4.3. Rational Discursive Construction
* §4.4. From Intimate Articulation to Moral Articulation
* §4.5. Some Formal Features of Moral Articulation
* §4.6. Conclusion
* 5. Changing Our Nature
* §5.1. The Immutability Thesis
* §5.2. Human Natural History
* §5.3. Articulating Our Nature
* 6. Moral Progress and Immanent Critique
* §6.1. An Inescapable Circularity?
* §6.2. Five Theses on Moral Progress
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index