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Charles Leslie Stevenson ( 1908 – 1979 ) was an American Analytic Philosopher best known for his work in Ethics and Aesthetics .. "For many years, one of America’s most well-known analytic writers in ethics was Charles Stevenson, whose 1937 'The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms,' and 1944 ''Ethics and Language'', had become classics." He was a Professor at Yale University from 1939 to 1946 and at the University Of Michigan from 1946 to 1977. He studied in England with Wittgenstein and G. E. Moore . He gave the most sophisticated defense of Emotivism in the post-war period. In his papers "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (1937) and "Persuasive Definitions" (1938), and his book '' Ethics And Language '' (1944), he developed a theory of Emotive Meaning ; which he then used to provide a foundation for his theory of a Persuasive Definition . He furthermore advanced Emotivism as a Meta-ethical theory that sharply delineated between cognitive, scientific uses of language (used to state facts and to give reasons, and subject to the laws of science) and non-cognitive uses (used to state feelings and exercise influence). His papers are collected in his 1963 book, ''Facts and Values''. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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