Moral Fictionalism

Author: Mark Eli Kalderon
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199228043

Moral Fictionalism (Lines of Thought)

Moral realists maintain that morality has a distinctive subject matter. Download Moral Fictionalism (Lines of Thought) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Specifically, realists maintain that moral discourse is representational, that moral sentences express moral propositions--propositions that attribute moral properties to things. Non-cognitivists, in contrast, maintain that the realist imagery associated with morality is a fiction, a reification of our non-cognitive attitudes. The thought that there is a distinctively moral subject matter is regarded as something to be debunked by philosophical reflection on the way moral discourse mediates and makes public our noncognitive attitudes. The realist fiction might be understood as a philosophical misconception of a discourse that is not fundamentally representational but whose Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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