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Minimalism and Expressivism [PDF]
Ethics in Progress, 2012 There has been a great deal of discussion in the recent philosophical literature of the relationship between the minimalist theory of truth and the expressivist metaethical theory.
Fritz McDonald
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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli +2 more
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Ontological Expressivism [PDF]
, 2021 Ontological expressivism is the view that ontological existence claims express noncognitive mental states. The chapter develops a version of ontological expressivism that is modeled after Gibbard’s (2003) norm-expressivism. It argues that, when speakers assess whether, say, composite objects exist, they rely on assumptions with regard to what is ...
Flocke, Vera
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Abstract This chapter explores classical expressivism, especially the work of A. J. Ayer, Charles Stevenson, and R. M. Hare, arguing that their expressivist views, from emotivism to prescriptivism, leave too much out of the moral picture.
Luca Incurvati, Julian J Schlöder
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SyntheseAbstract In this paper I argue for free will expressivism, the view that the best interpretation of what people are doing when they utter free will sentences is not, as cognitivists maintain, asserting truth apt propositions, but rather, expressing attitudes towards the performance of certain actions.
Kristie Miller, Challis Chair
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The Frege-Geach Problem and the Logic of Higher-Order Attitudes [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Moral expressivism suggests that 1) moral sentences lack truth conditions and 2) our purpose in asserting moral sentences is to express non-cognitive attitudes such as desires, approval, or disapproval.
Bahram Alizade
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The Motivation Problem of Epistemic Expressivists
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Many philosophers have adopted epistemic expressivism in recent years. The core commitment of epistemic expressivism is that epistemic claims express conative states. This paper assesses the plausibility of this commitment.
Alexandre Duval, Charles Côté-Bouchard
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Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism [PDF]
, 2022 In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. We argue that one advantage of this view is that it explains various putative norms on the formation and revision of aesthetic judgement. We begin by setting out our proposed explananda and
Sinclair, Neil +3 more
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Representation, Deflationism, and the Question of Realism
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 How can we distinguish between quasi-realist expressivism and normative realism? The most promising answer to this question is the “explanation” explanation proposed by Dreier (2004), Simpson (2018), and others: the two views might agree in their ...
Camil Golub
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Expressivism about delusion attribution
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2020 In this paper, I will present and advocate a view about what we are doing when we attribute delusion, namely, say that someone is delusional. It is an “expressivist” view, roughly analogous to expressivism in meta-ethics.
Sam Wilkinson
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