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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 José Frápolli, Neftalí Villanueva   +1 more
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Free will expressivism [PDF]

Synthese
Abstract 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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Expressivism

, 2023
Abstract This chapter introduces expressivism, focusing on its application to the ethical domain. It details the concerns that have been particularly influential in the emergence and development of ethical expressivism and explains how the related view of speaker subjectivism can be seen as an early attempt to deal with these concerns ...
Luca Incurvati, Julian J. Schlöder
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Express your Self. Expressivism and ontological security [PDF]

European Journal of International Security
Recent research has demonstrated the entanglements between the security of Self and IR, yet it remains unclear how ontological security of the IR Self can be created.
Cornelia Baciu
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Inferentialism as an Alternative to Expressivism [PDF]

, 2023
Abstract Normative discourse includes statements which appear to be truth-apt expressions of normative beliefs. But normative oughts do not seem to fit cleanly amongst the natural facts. This makes many naturalistically-inclined philosophers sympathetic to some form of the expressivist view that normative statements get their meaning ...
Matthew Chrisman
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Expressivism and Alternative Normative Concepts

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
In recent work – primarily the book Choosing Normative Concepts (2017) – I has presented what I see as a new, significant problem regarding normativity. Briefly, it has to do with the existence of alternative normative concepts.
Matti EKLUND
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Inferential Expressivism

, 2023
Abstract This chapter introduces inferential expressivism, the view that the meaning of certain linguistic items is given by the inferences to attitude expressions they license. It is argued that the bilateralist programme in logic, which holds that the meaning of the logical constants is given by conditions on assertion and rejection ...
Luca Incurvati, Julian J. Schlöder
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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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Aesthetic Judgments, Evaluative Content, and (Hybrid) Expressivism

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Aesthetic statements of the form ‘X is beautiful’ are evaluative; they indicate the speaker’s positive affective attitude regarding X. Why is this so?
Jochen Briesen
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