Resolute Expressivism
Over the years, we have witnessed the rise of a metaethical cottage industry devoted to claiming that expressivist analyses cannot capture some allegedly important feature of moral language. In this paper, I show how Simon Blackburn's pragmatist method enables him to respond decisively to many...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2014
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 607-618 |
Further subjects: | B
Quasi-realism
B Simon Blackburn B Pragmatism B Expressivism B Metaethics |
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Summary: | Over the years, we have witnessed the rise of a metaethical cottage industry devoted to claiming that expressivist analyses cannot capture some allegedly important feature of moral language. In this paper, I show how Simon Blackburn's pragmatist method enables him to respond decisively to many of these objections. In doing so, I hope to call into question some prevailing assumptions about the linguistic phenomena that a metaethical theory should be expected to capture. |
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ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-014-9495-y |