Works by C. L. Stevenson Cited in This Article

• 1937, “The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 10–31. (Scholar)
• 1938a, “Ethical Judgments and Avoidability,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 138–152. (Scholar)
• 1938b, “Persuasive Definitions,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 32–54. (Scholar)
• 1944, Ethics and Language, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1946 [1943], “Some Relations Between Philosophy and the Study of Language,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 175–185. (Scholar)
• 1948a, “Meaning: Descriptive and Emotive,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 153–174. (Scholar)
• 1948b [1941], “The Nature of Ethical Disagreement,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 1–9. (Scholar)
• 1950a, “The Emotive Conception of Ethics and Its Cognitive Implications,” reprinted in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 55–70. (Scholar)
• 1950b, “Interpretation and Evaluation in Aesthetics,” in Philosophical Analysis: a Collection of Essays, Max Black (ed.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. xxx–xxx. (Scholar)
• 1950c, “Brandt’s Questions about Emotive Ethics,” Philosophical Review, 59(4): 528–534. (Scholar)
• 1957, “On ‘What is a Poem?’,” Philosophical Review, 66(3): 329–362.
• 1958, “On the ‘Analysis’ of a Work of Art,” Philosophical Review, 67(1): 33–51. (Scholar)
• 1961–62a, “Reflections on John Dewey’s Ethics,” in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 94–116. (Scholar)
• 1961–62b, “Relativism and Nonrelativism in the Theory of Value,” in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 71–93. (Scholar)
• 1963a, Facts and Values: Studies in Ethical Analysis, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1963b, “Retrospective Comments,” in Stevenson 1963a, pp. 186–232. (Scholar)
• 1968, “Ethical Fallibility,” in Ethics and Society, T. De George (ed.), London: Macmillan, pp. 197–217. (Scholar)
• 1973, “Richards on the Theory of Value,” in I. A. Richards: Essays in His Honor, Reuben Brower et. al (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 119–134. (Scholar)

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