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Cognitivism, Expressivism, and Agreement in ResponseIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Ii, Clarendon Press. 2007.
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Mistaken ExpressionsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (4): 459-479. 2006.It is a suggestive feature of English and other languages that an indicative sentence such as ‘Premarital sex is wrong’ can be described not only as an expression of the belief that premarital sex is wrong, but also as an expression of disapproval of premarital sex. Disapproval is plausibly regarded as an attitude that is distinct from belief, in that it does not have truth conditions. What sort of attitude, then, should we take ‘Premarital sex is wrong’ to express: disapproval, belief, or perha…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |