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Expressivism, Anti-Archimedeanism and Supervenience
Tiefensee, Christine (2015): Expressivism, Anti-Archimedeanism and Supervenience, in: Bamberg: opus.
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2015
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Ursprünglich in: Res Publica. - 20 (2014), 2. - S. 163 - 181
Year of first publication:
2014
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English
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Metaethics is traditionally understood as a non-moral discipline that examines moral judgements from a standpoint outside of ethics. This orthodox understanding has recently come under pressure from anti-Archimedeans, such as Ronald Dworkin and Matthew Kramer, who proclaim that rather than assessing morality from an external perspective, metaethical theses are themselves substantive moral claims. In this paper, I scrutinise this anti-Archimedean challenge as applied to the metaethical position of expressivism. More precisely, I examine the claim that expressivists do not avoid moral commitments when accounting for moral thought, but instead presuppose them; they do not look at ethics from the outside, but operate from within ethics. This paper defends the non-moral status of expressivism against anti-Archimedeanism by rejecting a new anti-Archimedean challenge which, on the basis of Hume’s Law, aims to exploit expressivist explanations of supervenience in order to show that expressivism is a substantive moral position.
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Expressivism, Minimalism, Anti-Archimedeanism, Supervenience, Metaethics
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Article
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March 23, 2015
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