Ethical Subjectivism and Expressivism

Ethical Subjectivism and Expressivism

by Neil Sinclair
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/08/2020

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Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. These views cook with the same ingredients – the natural world, and our reactions to it – and have similar attractions. This Element assesses each of them by considering whether they can accommodate three central features of moral practice: the practicality of moral judgements, the phenomenon of moral disagreement, and the mind-independence of some moral truths. In the process, several different versions of subjectivism are distinguished (simple, communal, idealising, and normative) and key expressivist notions such as 'moral attitudes' and 'expression' are examined. Different meanings of 'subjective' and 'relative' are examined and it is considered whether subjectivism and expressivism make ethics 'subjective' or 'relative' in each of these senses.

ISBN:
9781108586658
9781108586658
Category:
Ethics & moral philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-08-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Neil Sinclair

Neil Sinclair is an ex-Commando, and has been a stay-at-home dad for the last eleven years with his children Samuel, Jude and Liberty.

Three of those years he spent as a childminder. Neil's first book is Commando Dad: Basic Training, the bestselling book for new dads that Prince William used to prepare him for fatherhood. Neil writes a popular blog, and a column for The Daily Telegraph and has appeared in other newspapers, magazines, on TV and on the radio discussing fatherhood.

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