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Principia Metaethica: the Alphabet of Moral Theories. Chrisman, M. (2023). What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.

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Review of Chrisman, M. (2023) What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.
Herman Vykhor
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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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Teaching Writing in the Chinese Primary and Secondary School Contexts: An Analysis of the Discourses of Writing in L2 Curriculum Documents

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1285-1297, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite the significance of second language (L2) writing curricula in guiding effective and successful teaching practices, limited studies have explored the underlying pedagogical philosophies and values in writing curricula in L2 school contexts.
Shulin Yu, Simin Liu
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Expression, Description, and Conscious Belief

Ideas y Valores, 2014
The paper reviews expressivism with respect to statements of the form “I believe that p”. The expressivist holds that the statement “I believe it is raining” is an expression and not a description of the belief that it is raining.
Javier Vidal López
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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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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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Noncognitivism without expressivism [PDF]

, 2023
According to expressivists, normative language expresses desire‐like states of mind. According to noncognitivists, normative beliefs have a desire‐like functional role. What is the relation between these two doctrines?
Beddor, Bob
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How to Be an Expressivist about Avowals Today

Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2012
According to expressivism about avowals, the meaning of typical self-ascriptions of mental states is a matter of expressing an attitude, rather than describing a state of affairs.
Ángel García Rodríguez
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