Metasemantics for the Relaxed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23148180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Tiefensee (0009-0005-3832-3440, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 108-133 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 16 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780192897466.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4205169964 |
| ISBN | 9780192897466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This chapter discusses how to meet the ‘generalized integration challenge’ as a relaxed moral realist by providing a metasemantics of moral vocabulary which is compatible with relaxing about moral metaphysics and epistemology. Employing normative inferentialism and focussing on evaluative moral terms in particular, it is suggested that evaluative moral terms function to explain proprieties of language exit transitions, where having this function amounts to systematizing language exit transitions through a process of reflective equilibrium. Crucially, this inferentialist take on explanatory function does not engender any substantive metaphysical commitments about moral properties. Moreover, the systematization process on which it is based is undertaken from within moral discourse. As such, understanding evaluative terms as tools that systematize language exits fits perfectly with the relaxed take on moral discourse.
Epistemology · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Normative · Philosophy of language · Process (computing) · Sociology · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |