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Practical Expressivism

Practical Expressivism

Sinclair, Neil

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0198866100
ISBN13: 9780198866107
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
bWhat is morality? In iPractical Expressivism/i, Neil Sinclair argues that morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the attitudes and actions of others./b

The ultimate goal of these expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This 'expressivist' model for understanding morality faces well-known challenges concerning 'saving the appearances' of morality, because morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery, not pure expression.

This book demonstrates how a properly developed expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently objective features of morality.

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