Being For: Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism
Expressivism - the sophisticated contemporary incarnation of the noncognitivist research program of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare - is no longer the province of metaethicists alone. Its comprehensive view about the nature of both normative language and normative thought has also recently been applied to many topics elsewhere in philosophy - including logic, probability, mental and linguistic content, knowledge, epistemic modals, belief, the a priori, and even quantifiers. Yet the semantic commitmen…
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- Full title :Being For : Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism.
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Expressivism - the sophisticated contemporary incarnation of the noncognitivist research program of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare - is no longer the province of metaethicists alone. Its comprehensive view about the nature of both normative language and normative thought has also recently been applied to many topics elsewhere in philosophy - including logic, probability, mental and linguistic content, knowledge, epistemic modals, belief, the a priori, and even quantifiers. Yet the semantic commitments of expressivism are still poorly understood and have not been very far developed. As argued within.
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- Publication Date:2008.
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- Publisher(s):OUP Oxford
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
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- Description:1 online resource (214 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191560026, 0191560022
- oclc:ocn781370484
- LC Classification:B105.E95 S37 2008
- Dewey Decimal:121.68
Table of Contents
Contents; Preface; I. The Semantic Program Of Expressivism; Ii. Expressivists' Problems With Logic; Iii. Descriptive Language; Iv. Extensions; References; Index.
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