Title: Impassioned Belief /
Authors: Ridge, Michael,
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Normativity (Ethics); Metaethik.; Normative Ethik; Metaethics.; Judgment (Ethics)
Abstract: Provides a taxonomy of the array of theories about the nature of so-called normative judgments, and argues for a more expressivist hybrid theory that accommodates both the context-sensitivity of normative predicates and a broadly truth-conditional approach to semantics.
Contents: Locating normative thought and discourse -- Normative thought and discourse : affective, action-guiding, and acrimonious -- Ecumenical cognitivism -- Introducing ecumenical expressivism -- Compositionality, inference, and the Frege-Geach problem -- Disagreement -- Truth -- Rationality.