Description: Explaining the Reasons We Share : Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Hardcover by Schroeder, Mark, ISBN 0198713800, ISBN-13 9780198713807, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US When the logical positivists espoused emotivism as a theory of moral discourse, they assumed that their general theories of meaning could be straightforwardly applied to the subject of metaethics. The philosophical research program of expressivism, emotivism's contemporary heir, has called this assumption into question. In this volume Mark Schroeder argues that the only plausible ways of developing expressivism or similar views require us to re-think what we may have thought that we knew about propositions, truth, and the nature of attitudes like belief and desire. Informed by detailed scrutiny of the structural problems about understanding complex thoughts, he develops a range of alternative expressivist frameworks in detail as illustrations of general lessons, and applies them not just to metaethics, but to epistemic expressions and even to truth itself. Expressing Our Attitudes pulls together over a decade of work by one of the leading figures in contemporary metaethics. Two new and seven previously published papers weave treatments of propositions, truth, and the attitudes together with detailed development of competing alternative expressivist frameworks and discussion of their relative advantages. A substantial new introduction both offers new arguments of its own, and provides a map to reading these essays as a unified argument. Along with its sister volume, Explaining the Reasons We Share, this volume advances the theme that metaethical inquiry is continuous with other areas of philosophy--
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Book Title: Explaining the Reasons We Share : Explanation and Expression in E
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Explaining the Reasons We Share : Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Mark Schroeder
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
