Expressing our attitudes. Volume 2 : explanation and expression in ethics / Mark Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Mark Andrew, 1977- author.

Series:

Explanation and expression in ethics ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Explanation and expression in ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover

Expressing Our Attitudes

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Permissions

Contents

Introduction

Part 1

1. Expression for Expressivists

2. Higher-Order Attitudes, Frege's Abyss, and the Truth in Propositions

Part 2

3. Two Roles for Propositions: Cause for Divorce?

4. How to Be an Expressivist about Truth

5. Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth

Part 3

6. Hybrid Expressivism: Virtues and Vices

7. Tempered Expressivism

Part 4

8. Is Semantics Formal?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-178254-8

0-19-102357-4

OCLC:

915560718