Hence emotivism, which seems to imply otherwise, is false. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
According to emotivism, when I sincerely utter the sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Realism] Reference
Again, Russell's brand of emotivism is immune to this objection. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Author of Principia Ethica (1903) and advocate of emotivism as an ethical system. From Wordnik.com. [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference
Russell's dominant view was to be a form of emotivism, and hence of non-cognitivism. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
According to emotivism, at least in one of its most traditional forms, utterances of the form. From Wordnik.com. [The Deflationary Theory of Truth] Reference
Expressivism, and so emotivism, seems to introduce an unwarranted equivocation into the argument. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Jules Ayer] Reference
Does Russell's meta-ethic stand up against the objections that have laid emotivism and relativism low?. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Thus Russell's brand of emotivism is subject to devastating objections, some of which he was aware of. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
MacIntyre has much to say about emotivism and the contemporary impasse in the discussion of moral issues. From Wordnik.com. [The US may be in bad shape] Reference
And although emotivism was Russell's dominant view, from 1913 onwards, there were two significant wobbles. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
The emotivism espoused by Ayer in LTL was supported by his belief in the distinction between fact and value. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Jules Ayer] Reference
But there is another broadly logical objection to emotivism that is much more difficult for Russell to meet. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Another a priori objection to DMR was suggested by Philippa Foot (1978a and 1978b) in a response to emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Relativism] Reference
It might pay in terms of peace, love and understanding if people came to believe Russell's brand of emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Thus wrote Russell in reply to critics who thought that his emotivism precluded him from being so relentlessly preachy. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
After 1922, Russell abandoned the error theory and reverted to the emotivism that he had been flirting with since 1913. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
This latter view would make moral claims truth-evaluable, and Ayer's moral emotivism denied that they were so evaluable. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Jules Ayer] Reference
It is a common complaint against emotivism that it precludes the possibility of moral arguments that are valid in a non-trivial sense. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Nor (as he might have added) is there any inconsistency between Russell's meta-ethical emotivism and his moral and political activism. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
There is little to be learned from the theory of HSEP and Russell soon abandoned it, reverting to emotivism within weeks of publication. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
There was, they thought, some kind of pragmatic inconsistency between vehement moral opinions (frequently voiced) and meta-ethical emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
He tended to call it subjectivism or ˜the subjectivity of moral values™ though it is nowadays known as non-cognitivism, expressivism or emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
In fact, in the “Introduction” to the second edition of LTL Ayer stated that his commitment to emotivism would survive any demise of his positivism. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Jules Ayer] Reference
Although Russell and Santayana were toying with emotivism in the 1910s, it was not until the 1930s that the theory really hit the philosophical headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Most species of existentialism, emotivism, and prescriptivism — all three denying objective uni - versal moral principles — are forms of ethical individ - ualism. From Wordnik.com. [TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM] Reference
If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgment require the motivation not present in the amoralist. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
L.te in life he encountered the non-cognitivist emotivism of C.L. Stevenson, which says that moral judgements express rather than report feelings and therefore can conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Moore's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Relativism likewise is generally regarded as a down-list option, though, as with emotivism, there are one or two distinguished philosophers who are prepared to stick up for it. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
We will put the spotlight on cultural relativism, existentialism, emotivism and social. From Wordnik.com. [An accidental blog] Reference
Again, emotivism and the fear of being smeared by the political thugs, must be a factor in this fear of allowing major consitutional questions on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
One such view ” which may be called expressivism ” is the analogue of emotivism in ethics. From Wordnik.com. [The Deflationary Theory of Truth] Reference
This brings me to the most obvious and perhaps the most compelling objection to emotivism ” what I like to call the Duck Argument. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Ayer on emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [On Being Certain, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Schools of thought What is emotivism?. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
(emotivism) or issue something like imperatives. From Wordnik.com. [Moore's Moral Philosophy] Reference
“emotivism” or “expressivism.”. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Anti-Realism] Reference
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