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Expressing Our Attitudes: Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 2

Expressing Our Attitudes: Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 2

Hardcover

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0198714149
ISBN13: 9780198714149
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 25 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 program 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 re-think what we may have thought that we knew about propositions, truth, and the nature of attitudes like belief and desire. Informed by detailed scrutiny of the structural problems about understanding complex thoughts, he develops a range of alternative expressivist frameworks in detail as illustrations of general lessons, and applies them not just to metaethics, but to epistemic expressions and even to truth itself.

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