Ethics and Language

Ethics and Language

Infobox Book
name = Ethics and Language
author = C. L. Stevenson
country = England
language = English
subject = Emotivism
publisher = Yale University Press
release_date = 1944
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 338

"Ethics and Language" is a 1944 book by C. L. Stevenson which was influential in furthering the metaethical view of emotivism first espoused by A. J. Ayer.


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