Answer by user71226 for Why is emotivism unpopular?
I can say why I find it relatively uninteresting, or rather a fall-back positionEmotivism did a bad job of explaining the important role of rationalargument in moral...
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The superficial reason that emotivism has failed to gain traction is that — starting with the Enlightenment — the philosophical trajectory has held that reason is the antidote or panacea to...
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How people select truths is a fascinating and complicated subject. While philosophy gives us tools to analyze beliefs, particularly through the study of logic, the philosophy of mind has only since the...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Sunami for Why is emotivism unpopular?
The problem with emotivism is the same as the problem with the rest of the positivist project: The goal of reducing the universe of discourse to the objectively knowable results in leaving out the...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco Ocram for Why is emotivism unpopular?
I suspect it is unpopular because people are irrational and have a tendency to equate strong feelings and instincts with objective truth. There are all sorts of beliefs which are subjective but which...
View ArticleAnswer by Kristian Berry for Why is emotivism unpopular?
Ultimately, we can drop the use of generic moral terms and engage in a replacement semantics (c.f. John Rawls on moral conceptual analysis) whereby we ask questions like, "Does such-and-such action...
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If you define words to mean something incompatible with the definition in common use, you haven't come to a conclusion or expressed an opinion. You've just stopped speaking the same language as...
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The problem with emotivism - or at least some forms of it - is that it doesn't explain how we can judge that a moral judgment made by someone else is wrong. If the other person is merely describing...
View ArticleAnswer by user71009 for Why is emotivism unpopular?
Ayer's emotivism cannot explain moral discourse. This problem is known as the Frege-Geach problem. If a moral sentence (one could say proposition but I don't want to unnecessarily invoke association...
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EDIT - The Behavior WindowThe Behavior Window is a concept taught in Leader Effectiveness Training (LET).https://youtu.be/szj93fquJ-gThe person applying the behavior window observes a pattern of...
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I grew up in a protestant American household. I worked hard to redefine my beliefs, epistemology, and ultimately my meta-ethical views as those that I could defend. I find that emotivism is easily the...
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