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Expressivism and Collectives [PDF]

Mind, 2017
Expressivists have a problem with collectives. I initially illustrate the problem against the background of Allan Gibbard’s expressivist theory, where it is especially stark. I then argue that the problem generalizes. Gibbard’s account entails that judgments about what collective agents ought to do are contingency plans for what to do if one is in the ...
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A Problem for Expressivism

Analysis, 1998
Abstract Language, Truth and Logic added expressivism to the inventory of substantive positions in meta-ethics, and the recent defences of versions of it by Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard have enhanced its status as a major position.1 Ayer presented the doctrine as an improvement on subjectivism-that is, on the doctrine that ethical ...
Jackson, Frank, Pettit, Philip
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Ecumenical expressivism and the frege: Geach problem [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2019
A background assumption of much of 20 th century and recent metaethics and moral psychology is that moral judgements either express beliefs rather than desire-like attitudes or express desire-like attitudes rather than beliefs.
Miller Alexander, Surgener Kirk
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Restriction without Quantification: Embedding and Probability for Indicative Conditionals

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Many modern theories of indicative conditionals treat them as restricted epistemic necessity modals. This view, however, faces two problems. First, indicative conditionals do not behave like necessity modals in embedded contexts, e.g., under ‘might’ and ‘
Ivano Ciardelli
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Logical space and the origins of pluralism in logic

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2017
The fact that there is a plurality of systems that we call logics makes it requisite to attempt an explanation and thorough evaluation of the role of logic.
Pavel Arazim
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Expresivistické pojetí tolerance

Filosofický časopis, 2022
In this text, the author concentrates on an analysis of the concept of tolerance, which plays an important role in moral and political thought. The semantic framework that he uses in his analysis is moral expressivism.
Sobek, Tomáš
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Ex aequo et bono versus Hard Cases in the Light of Modern Metaethics [PDF]

Avant, 2018
In the present paper, I argue against the claim that ex aequo and bono adjudication cannot be epistemically objective. I start with a survey of legal rules allowing the parties to resort to ex aequo et bono adjudication.
Izabela Skoczeń
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CITRA SEKSUALITAS DAN POLITIK DALAM PUISI MBELING KARYA REMY SYLADO: KAJIAN EKLEKTIK

Sintesis, 2022
ABSTRAK   Artikel ini membahas tentang citra seksualitas dan politik di Indonesia dalam puisi mbeling pada antologi Puisi Mbeling karya Remy Sylado dengan pendekatan eklektik, yaitu pendekatan yang menggabungkan dua pendekatan. Dalam penelitian ini, dua
Sarwo Edi Wardana
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Underspecification and Communication

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
It has recently been argued that our use of vague language poses an intractable problem for any account of content and communication on which (i) the things we assert are propositions and (ii) understanding an assertion requires recognizing which ...
Ray Buchanan
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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