Normativity and the Problem of Representation

ISBN-13: 9780367353926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 338 str.

Matthew S. Bedke; Stefan Sciaraffa

Opis

This book tackles questions which revolve around the representational purport (or lack thereof) of evaluative and normative claims. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Spis treści

1. Gripped by authority  2. Expressivism, meaning, and all that  3. Relativism and the expressivist bifurcation  4. Perspectival representation and fallacies in metaethics  5. Two nondescriptivist views of normative and evaluative statements  6. The unity of moral attitudes: recipe semantics and credal exaptation  7. Neo-pragmatism, morality, and the specification problem  8. Building bridges with words: an inferential account of ethical univocity  9. Keeping track of what’s right  10. Solving the problem of creeping minimalism  11. The real and the quasi-real: problems of distinction  12. Representing ethical reality: a guide for worldly non-naturalists  13. A semantic challenge to non-realist cognitivism  14. Moral supervenience  15. Why conceptual competence won’t help the non-naturalist epistemologist