Being for : evaluating the semantic program of expressivism / Mark Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Mark Andrew, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expression (Philosophy).

Semantics (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Evaluating the semantic program of expressivism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Expressivism - the sophisticated contemporary incarnation of the noncognitivist research program of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare - is no longer the province of metaethicists alone. Its comprehensive view about the nature of both normative language and normative thought has also recently been applied to many topics elsewhere in philosophy - including logic, probability, mental and linguistic content, knowledge, epistemic modals, belief, the a priori, and even quantifiers. Yet the semantic commitments of expressivism are still poorly understood and have not been very far developed. As argued within

Contents:

Introduction

Expression

The negation problem

Its solution

Composition and logic

Predicates and quantifiers

Descriptive language and belief

Biforcated attitude semantics

Assigning truth-conditions

An alternative approach

Nondescriptivist semantics

The limits and costs of expressivism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-192) and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-85316-X

9786611853167

0-19-156002-2

OCLC:

236838409