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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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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]
, 2020 Expressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional content. Instead, they hold that it expresses a lack of acceptance (that Jane isn’t late).
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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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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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The Logical Possibility of Moral Dilemmas in Expressivist Semantics: A Case Study
European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyIn this paper, using Mark Schroeder’s (2008a) expressivist semantic framework for normative language as a case study, I will identify difficulties that even an expressivist semantic theory capable of addressing the Frege-Geach problem will encounter in ...
Ryo Tanaka
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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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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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What is a logical diagram? [PDF]
, 2011 Robert Brandom’s expressivism argues that not all semantic content may be made fully explicit. This view connects in interesting ways with recent movements in philosophy of mathematics and logic (e.g.
Legg, Catherine
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Expressivism, self-knowledge, and rational agency
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 One family of thought about self-knowledge has argued that authoritative self-ascriptions express a form of higher-order knowledge whose special character is explained by the role that knowledge plays in rational agency.
Stephen Blackwood
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