Concept tag
#expressivism
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Moral disputes are disagreements in attitude, not in belief, once the facts are agreed
I want to defend a view that comes from Charles Stevenson, who distinguished disagreement in belief from disagreement in attitude. Two engineers who disagree about whether a bridge will bear a load disagree in belief. One of them is wrong, and a…
Started by Pieter de Jong5 replies222 views -
What is quasi-realism, and is it a form of realism or a clever way of avoiding it?
One of my debaters ran a case last weekend built on what she called “quasi-realism”, and the judge, a philosophy undergraduate, nodded along as if it were obvious. I did not understand it and I do not like coaching things I do…
Started by Sam Ellery4 replies184 views -
Can someone walk me through the Frege–Geach problem without the jargon?
I am an accountant who reads philosophy in the evenings, mostly medieval. A friend recommended an introduction to ethics and I got stuck on one page for most of a week. The book explained emotivism, the view that “stealing is wrong” is…
Started by Siobhán Keane4 replies122 views -
What did Tolstoy mean when he called art an ‘infection’?
I volunteer twice a week teaching a reading class at a men's prison in Nairobi, and philosophy has quietly taken over the syllabus. Last week one of the men read out a verse he'd written in his cell and asked: "Is this…
Started by Brian Otieno Ouma5 replies219 views