Expressivism is a form of moral anti-realism or nonfactualism: the view that there are no moral facts that moral sentences describe or represent and no moral properties or relations to which …

Broadly speaking, the term “expressivism” refers to a family of views in the philosophy of language according to which the meanings of claims in a particular area of discourse are to be …

There are two interestingly similar but also notably diferent theories that go under the moniker ‘expressivism’. Each kind of expressivism has a crude original form that has been supplanted …

Expressivism suggests that the function of moral language is to express desire like attitudes. The fact that moral language does so is supposed to explain the intuitively tight connection …

Expressivism is a bipartite theory. It holds, first, that ethical sentences lack truth conditions – they are not truth apt, truth assessable etc. – and do not serve to report anything that the speaker …

Expressivism is a non-cognitivist theory in ethics that suggests moral statements do not aim to describe the world or assert truths, but instead express emotional responses or attitudes.

Mar 27, 2025 · Term used for those theories of ethical discourse that contrast ethical sentences with expressions of belief. Such theories locate the primary function of ethical sentences in the …

Jun 15, 2017 · Expressivism consists of two theses.1 First, that the meaning of declarative sentences is to be explained in terms of the judgements their assertoric uses conventionally …

semantics and decision theory, I develop a novel framework for implementing an express ivist semantics that I call ordering expressivism. I argue that by systematically interpreting the …

Nov 23, 2023 · It details the concerns that have been particularly influential in the emergence and development of ethical expressivism and explains how the related view of speaker …