TY - JOUR
T1 - Who Is Afraid of the Logical Problem in Meta-Ethics?
AU - Weintraub, Ruth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Ruth Weintraub, published by Sciendo.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Expressivism, as applied to a certain class of statements, evaluative ones, for instance, is constituted by two doctrines, only the first of which will concern me in this paper. Evaluative statements, according to this doctrine, aren't propositional (susceptible of truth or falsity). In this paper, I will argue that one of the vexing problems (that I label the "logical problem") this doctrine engenders for the expressivist is equally pressing for some cognitivists (who think evaluative statements do have a truth-value). I will present the difficulty and argue that some constructivists, who are cognitivists, cannot contend with it at all, and others must resort to more complex ways than the one available to other cognitivists.
AB - Expressivism, as applied to a certain class of statements, evaluative ones, for instance, is constituted by two doctrines, only the first of which will concern me in this paper. Evaluative statements, according to this doctrine, aren't propositional (susceptible of truth or falsity). In this paper, I will argue that one of the vexing problems (that I label the "logical problem") this doctrine engenders for the expressivist is equally pressing for some cognitivists (who think evaluative statements do have a truth-value). I will present the difficulty and argue that some constructivists, who are cognitivists, cannot contend with it at all, and others must resort to more complex ways than the one available to other cognitivists.
KW - Frege-Geach
KW - cognitivism
KW - expressivism
KW - meta-ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174817499&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2478/disp-2022-0020
DO - 10.2478/disp-2022-0020
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AN - SCOPUS:85174817499
SN - 0873-626X
VL - 14
SP - 411
EP - 426
JO - Disputatio
JF - Disputatio
IS - 67
ER -