ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that thick concepts deserve more attention in general than they currently enjoy. A standard way of introducing thick concepts is to point to an intuitive contrast between concepts like generous, brutal, crude and tactless, and concepts like good, bad, right and wrong. Because, historically, much of the thick concepts debate merely assumed that thick concepts were evaluative concepts, this issue is relatively under-explored. Parochiality is closely related to the claim that the non-evaluative components of thick terms and concepts underdetermine their extensions. Whether thick terms and concepts contain embedded evaluation, regardless of whether they also contain global evaluation, is an important issue. Another common claim, typically made by non-reductivists, is that thick terms and concepts are non-evaluatively shapeless. There are at least two of what may be loosely termed "fact-value" distinctions that thick terms and concepts have been held to break down.
