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Hume's sentimentalism: Not non-cognitivism [PDF]
This paper considers and argues against old and recent readings of Hume according to which his account of moral judgement is non-cognitivist. In previous discussions of this topic, crucial metaethical distinctions-between sentimentalism and non ...
Olson Jonas
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In this paper, I return to issues explored in Wright (2001) and (2004). The abstract for the latter begins with the sentences, The essay addresses the well‐known idea that there has to be a place for intuition, thought of as a kind of non‐ inferential rational insight, in the epistemology of basic logic if our knowledge of its principles is non ...
C. Wright
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Non‐cognitivism about Metaphysical explanation
AbstractThis article introduces a non‐cognitivist account of metaphysical explanation according to which the core function of judgements of the form ⌜xbecausey⌝ is not to state truth‐apt beliefs. Instead, their core function is to express attitudes ofcommitment to, andrecommendation of the acceptance ofcertain norms governing interventional conduct at ...
Kristie Miller, James Norton
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Streumer on Non-Cognitivism and Reductivism About Normative Judgement [PDF]
Bart Streumer believes that the following principle is true of all normative judgements: When two people make conflicting normative judgements, at most one of them is correct. Streumer argues that noncognitivists are unable to explain why is true, or our
Evers, Daan
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An empirical argument against moral non-cognitivism [PDF]
According to non-cognitivism, moral sentences and judgements do not aim to represent how things morally are. This paper presents an empirical argument against this view.
Thomas Pölzler, Jennifer Cole Wright
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Are Moral Judgements Semantically Uniform? A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Cognitivism - Non-Cognitivism Debate [PDF]
Cognitivists and non-cognitivists in contemporary meta-ethics tend to assume that moral judgments are semantically uniform. That is, they share the assumption that either all moral judgments express beliefs, or they all express non-beliefs.
De Mesel, Benjamin
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Personal‐identity non‐cognitivism *
Abstract In this paper, I outline and defend a new approach to personal‐identity—personal‐identity non‐cognitivism—and argue that it has several advantages over its cognitivist rivals. On this view utterances of personal‐identity sentences express a non‐cognitive attitude towards relevant person‐stages.
Kristie Miller
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Bertrand Russell: cognitivism, non-cognitivism and ethical critical thinking [PDF]
Bertrand Russell converted from ethical cognitivism to ethical non-cognitivism and this was historically important, as it gave rise in part, to meta-ethics. It also clarified the central problem between cognitivism and non-cognitivism. Russell’s view was that defining “good†is the basic problem of ethics. If “good†is not amorphous, the rest
A. Nicolaides
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Non‐cognitivism and Wishful Thinking
Evaluation de l'argument non-cognitiviste du mal qui consiste a justifier rationnellement le rejet moral du mensonge. Examinant les attitudes non-cognitives qui constituent les premisses de l'argument, ainsi que la valeur de l'implication qui permet de conclure a la croyance introspective, l'A.
C. Dorr
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