Moral Realism, Speech Act Diversity, and Expressivism

In his highly engaging book, Speech and Morality, Terence Cuneo advances a transcendental argument for moral realism from the fact that we speak. After summarizing the major moves in the book, I argue that its master argument (Section I) is not as friendly to non-naturalist versions of moral realism as Cuneo advertises and (Section II) relies on a diet of insufficient types of speech acts. I also argue (Section III) that expressivists have compelling replies to each of Cuneo's objections individually, but taken together, Cuneo's objections provide the resources for issuing a new and interesting challenge to expressivists.

Argument (complex analysis) · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Expressivism · Moral psychology · Moral realism · Morality · Naturalism · Realism · Section (typography) · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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