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Thick concept

In philosophy, a thick concept (sometimes: thick normative concept, or thick evaluative concept) is a kind of concept that both has a significant degree of descriptive content and is evaluatively loaded. Paradigmatic examples are various virtues and vices such as courage, cruelty, truthfulness and kindness. Courage for example, may be given a rough…

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Thick concept → Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical, Argument, Aristotelian Society, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Blackburn, Blomberg, Boston, Cambridge, Clarendon Press, Dancy, Disentangling The Thick Concept, Elgin, Ethics, French, Gibbard, Harvard University Press, Holtzman, Hooker, Imperatives, In Defence
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Thick concept → Bradley, Brent, Dowden, Edward, In Fieser, In Zalta, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, Kyle, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Metaphysics Research Lab, OCLC, Pekka, Philosophy, Spring, Stanford University, The Stanford Encyclopedia
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Thick concept → How, However, In, It, Many, Returning, The, Therefore, These, Thick, This
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Thick concept → Descriptive, Expressivists, Moral, Thick, This

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courageinstance ofParadigmatic examples are various virtues and vices0.80text
crueltyinstance ofParadigmatic examples are various virtues and vices0.80text
truthfulnessinstance ofParadigmatic examples are various virtues and vices0.80text
kindnessinstance ofParadigmatic examples are various virtues and vices0.80text
waterinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
goldinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
lengthinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
mass are commonly believed to pick out features of the world rather than provide reasons for actioninstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
whereas evaluative concepts such as rightinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
good are commonly believed to provide reasons for action rather than picking out genuine features of the world.This 'double feature' of thick concepts has made them the point of debate between moral realistsinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
moral expressivistsinstance ofDescriptive concepts0.80text
goodinstance ofTwo accounts of thick conceptsThick concepts seem to combine the descriptive features of natural concepts such as water with an evaluative content similar to the thin evaluative…0.80text

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