Expressing our attitudes [electronic resource] : explanation and expression in ethics. Volume 2 / Mark Schroeder.

Expressing our attitudes [electronic resource] : explanation and expression in ethics. Volume 2 / Mark Schroeder.

First edition.

9780191782541 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

©2015

English

1 online resource.

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714149 doi

BJ1012 .S39 2015eb

170.42

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.

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.

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