Practical Expressivism
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Author | : Neil Sinclair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192635689 |
What is morality? In Practical Expressivism, Neil Sinclair argues that morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the attitudes and actions of others. The ultimate goal of these expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This 'expressivist' model for understanding morality faces well-known challenges concerning 'saving the appearances' of morality, because morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery, not pure expression. This book demonstrates how a properly developed expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently objective features of morality.
Author | : Neil Sinclair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198866100 |
What is morality? Neil Sinclair argues that it is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence others' attitudes and actions. Sinclair shows that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still possess the features that make morality appear objective.
Author | : Tara Roeder |
Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1602356548 |
Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intelletual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, “As far as I can tell, the term ‘expressivist’ was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit.” The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by “a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field.”
Author | : Neil Sinclair |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108586651 |
Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. These views cook with the same ingredients – the natural world, and our reactions to it – and have similar attractions. This Element assesses each of them by considering whether they can accommodate three central features of moral practice: the practicality of moral judgements, the phenomenon of moral disagreement, and the mind-independence of some moral truths. In the process, several different versions of subjectivism are distinguished (simple, communal, idealising, and normative) and key expressivist notions such as 'moral attitudes' and 'expression' are examined. Different meanings of 'subjective' and 'relative' are examined and it is considered whether subjectivism and expressivism make ethics 'subjective' or 'relative' in each of these senses.
Author | : Huw Price |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-05-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107354838 |
Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Author | : James Lenman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199609837 |
This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality and reason.
Author | : Alasdair MacIntyre |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110717645X |
MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.
Author | : Carsten Stahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198864183 |
This work is the first to examine the expressive and communicative functions of law in a comprehensive way in the field of atrocity crime. It shows that expression and communication are not only inherent parts of the punitive functions of international criminal justice, but are represented in a whole spectrum of practices.
Author | : Michael Ridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199682666 |
Provides a taxonomy of the array of theories about the nature of so-called normative judgments, and argues for a more expressivist hybrid theory that accommodates both the context-sensitivity of normative predicates and a broadly truth-conditional approach to semantics.
Author | : Elijah Millgram |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262133883 |
An overview of the philosophical subfield of practical reasoning.