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Zusatztext Schroeder's Being For is the most sophisticated investigation to date of the prospects for expressivist semantics. The book sets out and argues for a set of constraints on expressivist handling of the infamous "embedding problem", shows what a solution would look like, and explains the substantive commitments that such a solution must take on board. It is a philosophically serious and technically rigorous argument, and it establishes a kind of plateau from which future work on the subject will have to proceed. Informationen zum Autor Mark Schroeder is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, and author of Slaves of the Passions (OUP). His research ranges broadly across issues closely related to practical reason and metaethics, including on questions about reasons, rationality, normativity, reduction, moral explanations, metaethical expressivism, and the history of ethics. His articles have been published in Ethics, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Perspectives, Philosophers' Imprint, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and other journals. Klappentext Mark Schroeder explores the semantic commitments of metaethical expressivism, the heir to the noncognitivist theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare. He shows how to solve many of the open problems facing expressivism, but this only highlights further and deeper problems for the view. Expressivism, he argues, is coherent and interesting, but false. Zusammenfassung Mark Schroeder explores the semantic commitments of metaethical expressivism, the heir to the noncognitivist theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare. He shows how to solve many of the open problems facing expressivism, but this only highlights further and deeper problems for the view. Expressivism, he argues, is coherent and interesting, but false. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part One: The semantic program of expressivism 1: Introduction 2: Expression Part Two: Expressivists' problems with logic 3: The negation problem 4: Its solution 5: Composition and logic 6: Predicates and quantifiers Part Three: Descriptive language 7: Descriptive language and belief 8: Biforcated attitude semantics 9: Assigning truth-conditions 10: An alternative approach Part Four: Extensions 11: Nondescriptivist semantics 12: The limits and costs of expressivism References ...
