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Non‐Cognitivism and Inconsistency

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1995
A popular objection to ethical noncognitivism is that it fails to account for the realist appearance of moral discourse. This paper focuses on one feature of this appearance: Our tendency to seek consistency among our moral views. Contrary to what has been argued, I hold that noncognitivists can rationalize this practice. In support of this position, I
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Buddhist Non-Cognitivism

Asian Philosophy, 2014
The purpose of this essay is twofold. First, I plan to argue that in light of Buddhist epistemology and metaphysics, it would be an inherent contradiction to the Buddhist tradition as whole to defend the cognitivist view that moral knowledge is possible.
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Prospects for Non-cognitivism

Inquiry, 2001
This essay offers a defence of the non-cognitivist approach to the interpretation of moral judgments as disguised imperatives corresponding to social rules. It addresses the body of criticism that faced R. M. Hare, and that currently faces moral anti-realists, on two levels, by providing a full semantic analysis of evaluative judgments and by arguing ...
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Non-cognitivism and Motivation

2009
It is usually thought, following Hume, that considerations to do with motivation favour non-cognitivism over cognitivism about moral judgements. Hume’s motivation argument was that non-cognitivism does better than cognitivism at respecting the common observation that there is an immediate or internal connection between moral judgements and motivation ...
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Non‐Cognitivism and Validity

Theoria, 2007
Abstract: In this paper I defend against a certain objection the view that it is possible to account for validity and kindred notions for moral language within a non‐cognitivist framework by appeal to the descriptive meaning of moral terms. The objection is that such an account leads to an asymmetry in the accounts it offers for synonymy in different ...
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Wittgenstein’s ‘Non-Cognitivism’ – Explained and Vindicated

Synthese, 2007
The later Wittgenstein advanced a revolutionary but puzzling conception of how philosophy ought to be practised: Philosophical problems are not to be coped with by establishing substantive claims or devising explanations or theories. Instead, philosophical questions ought to be treated 'like an illness'.
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Non-cognitivism and rational inference

Philosophical Studies, 2009
Non-cognitivism might seem to offer a plausible account of evaluative judgments, at least on the assumption that there is a satisfactory solution to the Frege–Geach problem. However, Cian Dorr has argued that non-cognitivism remains implausible even assuming that the Frege–Geach problem can be solved, on the grounds that non-cognitivism still has to ...
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If Not Non-Cognitivism, Then What?

2009
According to Michael Smith, the big issue in metaethics (what he calls “The Moral Problem”) is how to accept the seemingly true premises of Hume’s Motivation Argument while fending off its non-cognitivist conclusion, a conclusion that Smith takes to be both repugnant and false (Smith, 1994, The Moral Problem, henceforward MP).
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