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Abstract Quasi‐realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism, however, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi‐realism.
Bart Streumer
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Naturalizacja języka etycznego w ramach ekspresywizmu, czyli o owocności perspektywy ewolucjonistycznej w metaetyce (Expressivism and the Naturalization of the Language of Morals: On the Fruitfulness of Evolutionary Perspective in Metaethics) [PDF]
escriptivists’ method of naturalizing moral language is neither the only nor the most promising one in metaethics. The paper deals with attempts to combine the expressivistic account of moral concepts with an evolutionary research programme.
Adrian Kuźniar
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Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: the Power of Expressivism
Theories of slurs aim to explain how – via semantics, pragmatics, or other mechanisms – speakers who use slurs convey that targets are inferior persons. I present two novel problems. The Slur Creation Problem: How do terms come to be slurs? An expression
Robin Jeshion
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Metaethics as conceptual engineering
Abstract On the traditional approach to metaethics, theories are expected to be faithful to ordinary normative discourse—or at worst (if we think the ordinary discourse is metaphysically unsound) to deviate from it as little as possible. This paper develops an alternative, “conceptual engineering” approach to metaethical enquiry, which is not in this ...
Knut Olav Skarsaune
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La paralinguisticità dell'estetico
What is alike between aesthetic and linguistic? And what is basically unlike? This paper focuses on this ambiguous relation in order to point out how the aesthetic expressiveness is an original one.
Giovanni Matteucci
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KEVIN TOH’S EXPRESSIVIST READING OF H. L. A. HART, OR HOW NOT TO RESPOND TO RONALD DWORKIN
This paper criticises Kevin Toh’s expressivist reconstruction of H. L. A. Hart’s semantics of legal statements on the grounds that two implications of Toh’s reading are arguably too disruptive to Hart’s theory of law.
ANDREA BUCCHILE FAGGION
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How to decide what to do: Why you're already a realist about value
Abstract Metaethical realists and anti‐realists alike have typically assumed that deliberation about what to do is, at least sometimes, properly settled by the agent's evaluative attitudes—what she wants, likes, or values—rather than by any objective source of value out in the world.
Claire Kirwin
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This article critically examines the OECD’s competence-based approach to emotions. Through policy frameworks, such as Education 2030/2040, OECD has placed social and emotional skills and competencies high on the educational agenda.
Odin Fauskevåg
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Metaethical angst and the solace of sentimentalism
Abstract Perhaps, nothing matters. Life might be devoid of value and meaning. Such thoughts can prompt feelings of angst. What kind of philosophical view could provide us with comfort? Some moral realists think that moral realism can. Moral realism does not comfort me. I think the comfort it gives others is an illusion.
Patrick Fleming
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Towards a Machine-Oriented Aesthetics: On the Power of Art
The paper deals with the problem of a position of art as traditionally seen from the field of philosophy; more precisely, it points to the core of this philosophical attitude which marginalizes art, treating it as prosthesis, almost erasing it ...
Levi R. Bryant
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