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57The Duality of Moral Language : On Hybrid Theories in MetaethicsDissertation, Stockholm University. 2022.Moral language displays a characteristic duality. On the one hand, moral claims seem to be similar to descriptive claims: To say that an act is right seems to be a matter of making an assertion, thus indicating that the speaker has a moral belief about which she can be correct or mistaken. On the other hand, moral claims seem to be different from descriptive claims: There is a sense in which, by claiming that an act is right, a speaker indicates that she is inclined to perform the act, to want o…Read more
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79Quasi-realism and normative certitudeSynthese 198 (8): 7861-7869. 2020.Just as we can be more or less certain that there is extraterrestrial life or that Goldbach’s conjecture is correct, we can be more or less certain about normative matters, such as whether euthanasia is permissible or whether utilitarianism is true. However, accommodating the phenomenon of degrees of normative certitude is a difficult challenge for non-cognitivist and expressivist views, according to which normative judgements are desire-like attitudes rather than beliefs. Several attempts have …Read more
Stina Björkholm
Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
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Institute for Futures Studies, StockholmPost-doctoral Fellow
Areas of Specialization
Moral Language |
Moral Judgment |
Pragmatics |
Philosophy of Language |