Stevenson
Stevenson was very important in the meta-ethical area of emotivism (what we read was one of the early emotivist texts). He’s an anti-realist (there are no objective moral facts) he’s a non-cognitivist (we can’t assign truth or falsity to ethical judgements). This paper we read was controversial, and resulted in him not getting his contract extended at Yale.
Any conception of the good must have (“common sense”):
- The capacity for genuine disagreement
- Magnetism
- Must not be exhausted by scientific research
It is important that descriptive vs. dynamic is about the intention of the speaker.