Charles L. [Leslie] Stevenson, Ethics and Language. Yale University Press, 1944. Note that Stevenson is "Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Yale University". He started at Yale in 1939, after having taught at Harvard, where he did his Ph.D. (The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms (Harvard University, 1935)). He was teaching at Harvard when he published his first articles, including "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms", Mind 46 (1937), p. 14-31. However, Stevenson was denied tenure at Yale. As has been said about this case:

"At that time, positivism was unpopular among most traditional American philosophers, including some of Steve's senior colleagues at Yale. Positivism in ethics was especially unpalatable to the traditionalists. Some even felt that Steve's ethics could corrupt morality by removing its objective basis. One declared that Stevenson had "committed positivism"!"

(Arthur A. Burks, "Preface", in Values and Morals, eds. Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978, p. xii).

The result was that Stevenson was hired by the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor of Philosophy in 1946. The second edition of Ethics and Language was published in 1946, and Stevenson is now listed as an Associate Professor.

Stevenson eventually retired in the Shenandoah Valley, and spoke at Washington and Lee University, after introducing himself to Prof. Harry Pemberton of the Philosophy Department.

First edition, 1944

Photo from Values and Morals, eds. Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978).

Second Edition, 1946