How to Be an Ethical Expressivist.
Expressivism promises an illuminating account of the nature of normative judgment. But worries about the details of expressivist semantics have led many to doubt whether expressivism's putative advantages can be secured. Drawing on insights from linguistic semantics and decision theory, I develop a...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 47 - 82 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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