Charles Leslie Stevenson (June 27 1908 – March 14 1979) 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. He studied in England with Wittgenstein and G. E. Moore. Among his students was Joel Feinberg.He gave the most sophisticated defense of emotivism in the post-war period.
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