Ecumenical Expressivism: Finessing Frege  

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Ridge, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 116 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 302-336.
Topik: Tale ; False Dichotomy; Metaethical; Debate; Kognitif; Expressivism

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.21 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Metaethical expressivism has many virtues. It can explain the depth of moral disagreement, fits easily into a naturalistic world view, and can explain how moral judgement guides action. Moreover, so-called quasirealist forms of expressivism can accommodate many of the realistsounding things we say. However, expressivism seems to have trouble making sense of utterances in which moral predicates occur in unaserted contexts. While we might be able to make sense of "torture is wrong" roughly along the lines of "Boo for torture!" it is hard to see how an acciunt of this sort could deal with utterances like"If torture is wrong then Camp X-Ray should be abolished." A spaker can accept the latter without disapproving of torture or Camp X-Ray. Moreover, any extension of expressivism to deal with such utterances must accommodate the validity of arguments in which they are premises. Since this problem comes to us through the work of P.T. Geach and is analogous to a problem Frege once posed for certain theories of negation, it is usually reffered to as the "Frege-Geach problem." In this article I articulate a new version of expressivism called"Ecumenical Expressivism," which can avoid the Frege-Geach problem altogether. A crucial idea is that expressivism can and should embrace the thesis that moral utterances express both desires and beliefs. Before turning to the Frege-Geach problem, we must first do some philosophical spadework to undercover logical space Ecumenical Expressivism occupies.

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