Lenman, J.W. (2019) An ecumenical matter? The Philosophical Quarterly, 69 (274). pp. 175-186. ISSN 0031-8094
Abstract
Ridge defends a form of hybrid expressivism where normative judgements are constituted by two elements, normative perspectives and representational beliefs that invoke standards our normative perspectives determine. He thinks this view will enable him to ‘offload logical complexity’ onto the latter, representational components of our judgements, thereby taming the Frege-Geach problem and conferring a dialectical advantage over non-hybid, ‘pure’ forms of expressivism. But this will only work if our normative perspectives are themselves consistent in ways that are resistant to such offloading. There are, moreover, serious problems with building normative perspectives into what we understand by moral judgement that appear best tamed by thinning out our understanding of them in ways that effectively collapse the ecumenical form of expressivism back into its purer cousin. The supposed dialectical advantage proves I argue, chimerical.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Philosophical Quarterly. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Ethics; Metaethics; Expressivism; Hybrid Expressivism; Frege-Geach Problem; Logic of Attitudes; Michael Ridge; Allan Gibbard |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2018 12:24 |
Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2020 12:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/pq/pqy022 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130401 |