Deflating the Many Attitudes Problem
Derek Baker
Abstract
Abstract Attitudinal embeddings, such as ‘I hope that murder is wrong’ or ‘she is glad that eating meat is not wrong’ are a less substantial problem for expressivists than is standardly thought. If expressivists are entitled to talk of normative beliefs, they can explain what it is to for an attitude to be semantically related to a normative content in terms of being functionally related to a belief with a normative content.
Topics & Concepts
NormativeContent (measure theory)PsychologySocial psychologyEpistemologyPhilosophyMathematicsMathematical analysisPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEpistemology, Ethics, and MetaphysicsPhilosophical Ethics and Theory