Expressive‐assertivism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8094899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel R Boisvert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-203 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific philosophical quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0279-0750 • E-ISSN: 1468-0114 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2008.00315.x |
| OpenAlex | W4245400910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 1 |
Hybrid metaethical theories attempt to incorporate essential elements of expressivism and cognitivism, and thereby to accrue the benefits of both. Hybrid theories are often defended in part by appeals to slurs and other pejoratives, which have both expressive and cognitivist features. This paper takes far more seriously the analogy between pejoratives and moral predicates. It explains how pejoratives work, identifies the features that allow pejoratives to do that work, and models a theory of moral predicates on those features. The result is an expressivist theory that, among other advantages, is immune to embedding difficulties and avoids an overlooked difficulty concerning attitude ascriptions that is lethal to most other hybrid theories
Analogy · Cognition · Cognitive science · Cognitivism (psychology · Embedding · Epistemology · Expressivism · Sociology · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy
Slurring Perspectives
Normative Ethics and Metaethics
Aesthetic Judgments, Evaluative Content, and (Hybrid) Expressivism
How quotation and referential intentions modulate the derogatory force of slur utterances
The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Epistemic Slurs
Proper Function and Ethical Judgment Towards A Biosemantic Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse
Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
An empirical argument against moral non-cognitivism
The Acquaintance Inference and Hybrid Expressivism
Words in Action
Non-Analytical Naturalism and the Nature of Normative Thought
Against Hybrid Expressivist-Error Theory
Predicates of personal taste and normative meaning
Noncognitivism and the Frege‐Geach Problem in Formal Epistemology
Noncognitivism without expressivism
Do Normative Judgements Aim to Represent the World
The Pragmatics of Moral Motivation
The compatibility condition for expressives revisited
The semantics of slurs
Semantic constraint and pragmatic nonconformity for expressives
Sidestepping the Frege-Geach Problem
Two Misconstruals of Frege's Theory of Colouring
Varieties of Expressivism
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |