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Miller, Alexander and Surgener, Kirk (2019) Ecumenical expressivism and the Frege-Geach problem. Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 32 . pp. 7-25. doi:10.5937/BPA1932007M ISSN 0353-3891.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/BPA1932007M
Abstract
A background assumption of much of 20th century and recent metaethics and moral psychology is that moral judgements either express beliefs rather than desire-like attitudes or express desire-like attitudes rather than beliefs. In a recent series of papers and а monograph, Michael Ridge seeks to reject this assumption, and thereby to steer the focus of metaethical debate away from the Frege-Geach problem. In particular, Ridge claims that we can formulate “ecumenical” views on which moral judgements express both beliefs and desire-like attitudes, and that his own favoured metaethical position – Ecumenical Expressivism – can use the resources of cognitivism to provide a relatively straightforward solution to the Frege-Geach problem. In this paper we argue that Ridge’s Ecumenical Expressivist response to the Frege-Geach problem is inadequate and explore the consequences of this inadequacy for our outlook on moral psychology.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Expressivism (Ethics), Ethics -- Psychological aspects, Expression (Philosophy), Ecumenical movement, Virtue epistemology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Belgrade Philosophical Annual | ||||
Publisher: | Institute for Philosophy, University of Belgrade | ||||
ISSN: | 0353-3891 | ||||
Official Date: | 5 November 2019 | ||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 7-25 | ||||
DOI: | 10.5937/BPA1932007M | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 November 2019 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 November 2019 | ||||
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