Moral fictionalism

Moral realists maintain that morality has a distinctive subject matter. Specifically, realists maintain that moral discourse is representational, that moral sentences express moral propositions--propositions that attribute moral properties to things. Non-cognitivists, in contrast, maintain that the...

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Glavni autor: Kalderon, Mark Eli
Daljnji autori: Mark Eli Kalderon
Jezik:Undetermined
English
Izdano: Oxford,New York Clarendon Press,Oxford University Press 2005
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Sažetak:Moral realists maintain that morality has a distinctive subject matter. Specifically, realists maintain that moral discourse is representational, that moral sentences express moral propositions--propositions that attribute moral properties to things. Non-cognitivists, in contrast, maintain that the realist imagery associated with morality is a fiction, a reification of our non-cognitive attitudes. The thought that there is a distinctively moral subject matter is regarded as something to be debunked by philosophical reflection on the way moral discourse mediates and makes public our noncognitive attitudes. The realist fiction might be understood as a philosophical misconception of a discourse that is not fundamentally representational but whose intent is rather practical
Opis:193 p.
ill.
21 cm
ISBN:0199228043
9780199228041