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Stevenson, Charles L. (Charles Leslie), 1908-1979

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Personal name headingStevenson, Charles L. (Charles Leslie), 1908-1979
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Variant(s)Stevenson, Charles L. (Charles Leslie), 1908-
Stevenson, Charles Leslie, 1908-
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeNew Haven (Conn.) Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Birth date1908-06-27
Death date1979-03-13
Place of birthCincinnati (Ohio)
Place of deathBennington (Vt.)
Field of activityEmotivism Ethics Aesthetics Analysis (Philosophy)
AffiliationYale University
University of Michigan
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Philosophers Authors
Found inHis Ethics and language, 1944.
His Interpretazione e valutazione in estetica, 1986: t.p. (Charles L. Stevenson) p. 20 (d. 1979)
Stevenson, Charles L. (Charles Leslie). Facts and values, 1963: title page (by Charles L. Stevenson)
Find a Grave (Website), viewed September 14, 2019: (Charles L Stevenson Birth: 27 Jun 1908, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA; Death: 13 Mar 1979 (aged 70), Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, USA; Mermorial: Charles Leslie Stevenson ... was an American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics. He was a professor at Yale University from 1939 to 1946, but was denied tenure because of his defense of emotivism. He then taught at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1977 ...)
   <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79049318/charles-l-stevenson>
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Website), viewed September 14, 2019: Charles Leslie Stevenson. First published Fri Apr 15, 2011; substantive revision Wed May 13, 2015 (Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908-1979) was a mid-Twentieth Century American philosopher best known for his pioneering work in the field of metaethics (the study of the relations among moral language, thought, reality, and knowledge) and, specifically, as a central figure along with I. A. Richards and A. J. Ayer in the development of emotivism ... In 1939, Stevenson accepted the position of Assistant Professor at Yale, where he remained until 1946, and during which time his landmark Ethics and Language was published in 1944 ... The University of Michigan immediately offered Stevenson a position as Associate Professor, which he accepted, and where he remained until 1978. During his thirty-one year career at Michigan, Stevenson published scores of articles in ethics and aesthetics. The most important of his ethics articles are collected in Facts and Values ...)
   <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stevenson/>