The Language of Desire: Expressivism and the Psychology of Moral Judgement

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Expressivism has been dominating much of the metaethical debate of the past three decades. The aim of this book is to address a number of questions that have been neglected in the previous discussion.These primarily concern the psychological commitments and the methodological status of expressivism as well as important differences and similarities between the approaches of the ‘classic’ expressivists Ayer, Stevenson, Hare, Blackburn und Gibbard. Contents Foreword Introduction Metaethics: Moral language and beyond Expressivism – a moving target? A brief history of classic expressivism Quasi-realism and the problem of creeping minimalism Further complications: Hybrid expressivism, relational expressivism, neo-expressivism The moral attitude problem and the expression relation Against independence: Expressivism and (empirical) moral psychology Conclusion References Index of names Index of subjects