Moral fictionalism / Mark Eli Kalderon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalderon, Mark Eli, 1964- author.

Series:

Lines of thought.

Lines of thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 193 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Mark Eli Kalderon argues that morality is a fiction by means of which our emotional attitudes are conveyed. This is an improvement on the standard noncognitivist view, which denies that moral judgement is belief but claims instead that it is the expression of an emotional attitude. Noncognitivists tend to deny that moral sentences even purport to represent moral reality, and so they have developed non-standard semantics for moral discourse. Kalderon's fictionalismshows that noncognitivism can manage without such controversial semantics. His book will be essential reading for anyone working in moral philosophy, and for many others working on meaning and knowledge.

Contents:

1 Moral Pyrrhonism and Noncognitivism

2 The Pragmatic Fallacy

3 Varieties of Moral Irrealism

4 Attitude, Affect, and Authority.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189) and index.

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ISBN:

9780191515323

0191515329

9780191706066

019170606X

9780199228041

0199228043

9781280844010

1280844019

OCLC:

476258463