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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主要作者: Smyth, Nicholas (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: 2014
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2014, 卷: 17, 發布: 4, Pages: 607-618
Further subjects:B Quasi-realism
B Simon Blackburn
B Pragmatism
B Expressivism
B Metaethics
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總結: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.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-014-9495-y