Expressivist Moral Abolitionism

dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T19:42:32Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T19:42:32Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-22
dc.description.abstractMoral abolitionists argue that ordinary moral discourse has downsides substantial enough to warrant abandoning the discourse in favour of some replacement(s). Their most common critique is that the ‘realist’ character of moral discourse inhibits important forms of self-awareness. Until recently, metaethicists had operated on the assumption that abolitionism depends on error theory. To this day, there has been no discernible recognition that well-established metaethical views might strongly support abolitionism, despite rejecting error theory. Here I argue that expressivism supports abolitionism and fits very poorly with quasi-realism. That is because (1) the quasi-realist strategy for defeating error theory helps abolitionists by entailing that they have no need of error theory, (2) expressivist interpretations of belief in realism strongly support abolitionist critiques from self-awareness, and (3) there is an inherent instability between expressivism and quasi-realism, while abolitionism and expressivism fit very nicely together.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.2020.1815065?en_US
dc.format.extent21 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articles postprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2gima-f72f
dc.identifier.citationCampbell, Eric; Expressivist Moral Abolitionism; Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2020); https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.2020.1815065?en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1815065
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/20077
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Onlineen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Philosophy Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australasian Journal of Philosophy on 2020-09-22, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.2020.1815065?
dc.titleExpressivist Moral Abolitionismen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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