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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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The expressive function of folk psychology

Filosofia Unisinos, 2017
The aim of this paper is to present a challenge to the received view in folk psychology. According to this challenge, the semantic assumption behind the received view, which considers that propositional attitude ascriptions are descriptions of the ...
Victor Fernandez Castro
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Social Rationality and Human Reasoning: Logical Expressivism and the Flat Mind

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 636-661, July 2025.
Abstract This paper attempts to reconcile the claims that the mind is both flat (Chater, 2018) and highly rational (Oaksford & Chater, 2020). According to the flat mind hypothesis, the mind is a mass of inconsistent and contradictory fragments of experience.
Mike Oaksford
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What a jerk!

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 458-474, June 2025.
Abstract I argue that “general pejoratives” such as “jerk” or “bastard” differ crucially from items such as “that damn N”. While items such as the latter typically serve to give vent to one's attitudes, general pejoratives essentially involve judgments about a person's behaviour or character.
Thorsten Sander
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No Self‐Reference, No Ownership?

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 475-492, June 2025.
Abstract A ‘no‐ownership’ or ‘no‐self theory’ holds that there is no proper subject of experience; the ownership of experience can only be accounted for by invoking a sub‐personal entity. In the recent self‐versus‐no‐self debate, it is widely assumed that the no‐referent view of ‘I’, which is closely associated with Wittgenstein and G. E. M.
Bernhard Ritter
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Minimalism's continued creep: Subject matter

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 130-144, June 2025.
Abstract The problem of creeping minimalism is the problem of drawing a principled distinction between expressivists and non‐expressivists. Explanationism is a popular strategy for solving the problem, but two of its forms—ontological explanationism and representational explanationism—have fatal problems.
Joshua Gert
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By Any Other Name: Expressive Implications of Reconceptualizing an International Crime as Another through the Examples of Ecocide and Aggression

Journal of Balkan Studies
The progressive development of international criminal law is part of a long tradition. International criminal norms have evolved in a process focused on expanding the protection of the underlying values of the system and its anti-impunity agenda.
Vera Piovesan
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Vagueness, Expressivism, and Stipulation

, 2023
the primary objective of this paper is to critically assess expressivism within the framework of the vagueness problem proposed by John MacFarlane. (2016; 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).
Raoufi, Mohammad Ali
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Otto tesi per una riconcezione dell’estetica (e due conclusioni meta-estetiche)

Aisthesis, 2012
Eight Theses for the reconception of Aesthetics. An expressivist contribute on the debate about New Realism.
Fabrizio Desideri
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