Titel
Perspectival representation and fallacies in metaethics
Abstract
The prevailing theoretical framework for theorising about representation construes all representation as involving objective representational contents. This classic framework has tended to drive philosophers either to claim that evaluative judgements are representations and therefore objective, or else to claim that evaluative judgements are not really representations, because they are not objective. However, a more general, already well-explored framework is available, which will allow theorists to treat evaluative judgements as full-fledged representations (thus doing justice to their representational aspects) while leaving open whether they are objective. Such a more general conception of representational content is exemplified, e.g. by Lewis’s ‘centred contents’ and Gibbard’s framework of ‘contents of judgement’, thus it is not new. I shall start in §1 by introducing the more general framework of perspectival contents and then illustrate in §2 how awareness of it can help expose the fallaciousness of certain widely used forms of argumentation in metaethics.
Stichwort
Perspectival contentcentred contentcontentrepresentational contentrepresentationFrege-Geach ProblemmetaethicsDavid LewisAllan GibbardNicholas UnwinMark Schroeder
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
Erschienen in
Titel
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Band
48
Ausgabe
3-4
Seitenanfang
379
Seitenende
404
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2018 The Author(s)

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