Expressing our attitudes, Volume 2: explanation and expression in ethics

When the logical positivists espoused emotivism as a theory of moral discourse, they assumed that their general theories of meaning could be straightforwardly applied to the subject of metaethics. The philosophical research programme of expressivism, emotivism's contemporary heir, has called th...

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Main Author: Schroeder, Mark Andrew 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
Edition:First edition
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:When the logical positivists espoused emotivism as a theory of moral discourse, they assumed that their general theories of meaning could be straightforwardly applied to the subject of metaethics. The philosophical research programme of expressivism, emotivism's contemporary heir, has called this assumption into question. In this volume Mark Schroeder argues that the only plausible ways of developing expressivism or similar views require us to rethink what we may have thought that we knew about propositions, truth, and the nature of attitudes like belief and desire
ISBN:9780191782541
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714149.001.0001