Being for: evaluating the semantic program of expressivism

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Mark Schroeder explores the semantic commitments of metaethical expressivism, the heir to the noncognitivist theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare. He shows how to solve many of the open problems facing expressivism, but this only highlights further and deeper problems for the view.

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Full title :Being for : evaluating the semantic program of expressivism / Mark Schroeder.

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Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

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Description:1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780191560026, 0191560022, 9780191715938, 019171593X
oclc:ocn236838409
LC Classification:B105.E95
Dewey Decimal:121/.68

Introduction -- Expression -- The negation problem -- Its solution -- Composition and logic -- Predicates and quantifiers -- Descriptive language and belief -- Biforcated attitude semantics -- Assigning truth-conditions -- An alternative approach -- Nondescriptivist semantics -- The limits and costs of expressivism.