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What is morality? In Practical Expressivism, Neil Sinclair argues that morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the attitudes and actions of others. The ultimate goal of these expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This 'expressivist' model for understanding morality faces well-known challenges concerning 'saving the appearances' of morality, because morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery, not pure expression. This book demonstrates how a properly developed expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently objective features of morality.

Book details

• Full title: Practical Expressivism
• Author: Sinclair, Neil (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780198866107
• ISBN: 0198866100
• ID: 32901507
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 624 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 240 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. February 2021

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