Cognitivist Expressivism and the Nature of Belief
The paper is a critical examination of the metaethical position taken up recently by Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons, called ‘cognitivist expressivism’. The key component of the position is their insistence that some beliefs are nondescriptive. The paper argues against this thesis in two ways: First...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2008
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2008, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 279-293 |
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Phenomenology
B Belief B Motivation B Cognitivism B Expressivism B Representation B Direction of fit B Metaethics |
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