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Author:   Neil Sinclair 

What is morality? In Practical Expressivism, Neil Sinclair argues that morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device, whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the attitudes and actions of others. The ultimate goal of these expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This ‘expressivist’ model for understanding morality faces well-known challenges concerning ‘saving the appearances’ of morality, because morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery, not pure expression. This book demonstrates how a properly developed expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently objective features of morality.

Practical Expressivism 1st Table of contents:

1. The Subject Matter of Metaethics
1. Moral Practice
2. Metaethical Questions
3. Desiderata on Metaethical Theories
2. Practical Expressivism, Morality’s Function, and Moral Attitudes
1. Development
2. Terminology
3. The Metasemantics of Practical Expressivism
4. The Psychology of Practical Expressivism
3. Practical Expressivism, Expression, and Quasi-Realism
1. The Expression Relation in Practical Expressivism
2. Pulling the Threads Together and Some Loose Ends
3. The Metaphysics of Practical Expressivism
4. The Epistemology of Practical Expressivism
5. The Assessment of Practical Expressivism
6. Quasi-Realism
4. Moral Disagreement and Reason-Giving
1. Picking out Clothes
2. Moral Disagreement
3. Reasons for Moral Judgements
4. Objections to the Account
5. Moral Conflict Resolution, Supervenience, Goading, and Guiding
6. General Lessons and Moral Avoidability
5. The Frege–Geach Problem
1. An Incomplete Theory
2. Conditions on Solutions to Embedding Problems
3. How Not to Characterize Embedding Problems
4. The Form of Solutions to Embedding Problems: Compositional Commitment Metasemantics
5. Solutions to Embedding Problems
6. Questions, Optatives, and Commands
7. Conclusion
6. Subsentential Metasemantics
1. Moral Predicates
2. Quantifiers
3. Tenses
4. Interim Conclusion and Prospects for an Extension to Modality
5. Truth-conditional Semantics and Radicalism
6. Conclusion
7. Truth, Truth-aptness, and Belief
1. The Traditional Characterization
2. Minimalism
3. The Traditional Characterization and Minimalism about Truth
4. Rehabilitating Expressivism
5. Minimalism about Truth-aptness
6. Securing Truth-aptness for Expressivism
7. A Problematic Platitude: Truth-aptness, Belief, and Description
8. Taming the Problematic Platitude
9. Ramsey’s Ladder and Creeping Minimalism
10. Conclusion
8. Mind-Independent Moral Truths and Categorical Moral Reasons
1. Non-moral Grounds for Moral Truths
2. Appropriateness for Moral Attitudes
3. Moral Mind-Independence
4. The Conceptual Truth in Mind-Independence
5. Categorical Moral Reasons
6. Conclusion
9. Practical Expressivist Strategies and Presumptive Arguments for Realism
1. Summary of the Book So Far
2. Practical Expressivist Strategies for Accommodating the Features of Moral Practice
3. General Objections to the Strategies
4. Presumptive Arguments for Moral Realism
5. Conclusion
10. Conclusion

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