Having it both ways : hybrid theories and modern metaethics / edited by Guy Fletcher and Michael Ridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fletcher, Guy, 1983- editor.

Ridge, Michael (Michael R.), editor.

Series:

Oxford moral theory.

Oxford Moral Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Other Title:

Hybrid theories and modern metaethics

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A recent trend in metaethics has been to reject the apparent choice between pure cognitivism and pure noncognitivism by adopting views that seek to combine the strengths of each side while avoiding the standard problems for each. Some such views claim that moral judgments are complexes of belief-like and desire-like components. Other such views claim that normative language serves both to ascribe properties and to express desire-like attitudes. These essays examine the prospects for such 'hybrid views' of normative thought and language (focusing mainly but not exclusively on moral thought & talk).

Contents:

Introduction

Part One. Optimism about Hybrid Theories: 1. How to Insult a Philosopher / Michael Ridge; 2. Expressivism, Nondeclaratives, and Success-Conditional Semantics / Daniel R. Boisvert; 3. Can a Hybrid Theory Have it Both Ways? Moral Thought, Open Questions and Moral Motivation / David Copp; 4. Attitudinal Requirements for Moral Thought and Language: Noncognitive Type-Generality / Ryan Hay; 5. Diachronic Hybrid Moral Realism / Jon Tresan; 6. The Pragmatics of Normative Disagreement / Stephen Finlay; 7. Hybrid Expressivism: How to Think About Meaning / John Eriksson

Part Two. Pessimism about Hybrid Theories: 8. Moral Utterances, Attitude Expression and Implicature / Guy Fletcher; 9. Pure versus Hybrid Expressivism and the Enigma of Conventional Implicature / Stephen Barker; 10. (How) is Ethical Neo- Expressivism a Hybrid View? / Dorit Bar-On, Matthew Chrisman, and Jim Sias; 11. Why Go Hybrid? A Cognitivist Alternative to Hybrid Theories of Normative Judgment / Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter; 12. Truth In Hybrid Semantics / Mark Schroeder.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-934760-3

0-19-934759-X

OCLC:

896862002