non-cognitivism

Thus some non-cognitivists hope to explain logical relations by using the secondary descriptive component in the meanings of moral terms postulated by some versions of non-cognitivism.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Success may indicate not that non-cognitivism is the right account of moral judgments, but instead that the contrast with cognitivism is not stark enough to make out a real distinction.

Boys in White Suits 2009

One strategy of objection to non-cognitivism is to find fault with the main motivating ideas.

Boys in White Suits 2009

It would thus seem that the account is on a par with those versions of non-cognitivism which try to use minimalism by itself to solve the embedding problem.

Boys in White Suits 2009

It has seemed obvious to many that non-cognitivism has much in common with various relativist metaethical views.

Boys in White Suits 2009

The resulting position will be a version of non-cognitivism so long as minimal truth conditions can be distinguished from more robust truth conditions, and so long as the negative non-cognitivist claims are construed in the more robust way (Stoljar 1993, 93).

Boys in White Suits 2009

And those complaints eventually became the strongest argument for non-cognitivism in meta-ethics.

Harold Arthur Prichard Dancy, Jonathan 2009

Because sophisticated consequentialists agree that motivation out of friendship must be personal, they must reject the idea that the ultimate moral reasons for acting in these cases are your motives, thereby rejecting the relatively weak motivational internalism that is implicit in the friendship critique (for weak motivational internalism, see the entry on moral cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism, and in particular the section on motivational internalism and the action-guiding character of moral judgements).

Friendship Helm, Bennett 2009

More complex versions of non-cognitivism can make the connection with actual motivation looser and thereby withstand the amoralist challenge.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Since non-cognitivism is a species of irrealism about ethics, it should be unsurprising that many of its main motivations overlap with those for other versions of ethical irrealism, especially with those for error theories.

Boys in White Suits 2009