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Normative Vagueness: Metaethics
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT The apparent vagueness of normative predicates such as “permissible,” “wrong,” and “responsible” raises a number of intriguing questions and has prompted a growing body of philosophical literature. In this article, I review recent metaethical discussions on normative vagueness.
Kaj André Zeller
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Expressivism, inferentialism, and saving the debate [PDF]
, 2007 This paper is forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchThe realism-irrealism debate in metaethics has mostly transpired with representation as its fundamental semantic notion.
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.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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Elaborating Expressivism: Moral judgments, Desires and Motivation [PDF]
, 2014 According to expressivism, moral judgments are desire-like states of mind. It is often argued that this view is made implausible because it isn't consistent with the conceivability of amoralists, i.e., agents who make moral judgments yet lack motivation.
Eriksson, John,
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Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2020 This article describes the origin of Bloch’s moral theory, which was formulated partly as a response to Simmel’s moral relativism. It also shows that Bloch’s theory is a coherent example of what Charles Taylor calls “expressivism,” a contemporary ...
Lucien Pelletier
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Inferentialism as an Alternative to Expressivism
, 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 ...
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From phenomenology to archaeology. Foucault with—and against—Merleau‐Ponty
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 203-215, June 2026.Abstract This article examines the complex and often ambiguous relationship Michel Foucault maintained with phenomenology through his dialogue with Maurice Merleau‐Ponty from the early 1950s to the mid‐1960s. The analysis delineates Foucault's progressive displacement from an internal questioning of phenomenology toward his major archaeological ...
Philippe Sabot
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i SocjologicznyThe paper aims to address the Infinite Regress of Interpretation Argument against Legal Interpretivism by offering an expressivist defence. In this paper, Legal Interpretivism is understood as the view that determining the content of law requires ...
Michał Wieczorkowski
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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