Impassioned Belief

Zusatztext ...a first-rate book! full of interesting arguments and claims...I would highly recommened Impassionaed Belief to metaethicists. Ridge makes a compelling case for taking hybrid theories seriously! and his preferred theory is an important contributon to this growing area of debate. Klappentext Michael Ridge presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments-Ecumenical Expressivism-which offers distinctive treatments of key problems in metaethics, semantics, and practical reasoning. He argues that normative judgments are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states. Zusammenfassung Michael Ridge presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments-Ecumenical Expressivism-which offers distinctive treatments of key problems in metaethics, semantics, and practical reasoning. He argues that normative judgments are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states.

...a first-rate book, full of interesting arguments and claims...I would highly recommened Impassionaed Belief to metaethicists. Ridge makes a compelling case for taking hybrid theories seriously, and his preferred theory is an important contributon to this growing area of debate.

Klappentext

Michael Ridge presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments--Ecumenical Expressivism--which offers distinctive treatments of key problems in metaethics, semantics, and practical reasoning. He argues that normative judgments are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states.

Inhalt

• Introduction

• 1: Locating Normative Thought and Discourse

• 2: Normative Thought and Discourse: Affective, Action-Guiding and Acrimonious

• 3: Ecumenical Cognitivism

• 4: Introducing Ecumenical Expressivism

• 5: Compositionality, Inference and the Frege-Geach Problem

• 6: Disagreement

• 7: Truth

• 8: Rationality

• Bibliography

• Index