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Deflating the Many Attitudes Problem

Derek Baker

2021The Philosophical Quarterly17 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

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
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