Theory that value judgments, including moral judgments, do not state facts (though they appear to), but are expressions of emotions or attitudes. (Also see: Boo Hurrah Theory.)
The theory, a form of speech act theory, arose under the influence of logical positivism (though it had antecedents in the 18th century) because of the difficulties of finding verification conditions for such utterances, and the need to explain how they can affect behavior.
Emotivism is also a form of subjectivism, but must be distinguished from the subjectivist view that while value judgments do describe something, what they describe are not special moral and such-like facts but human attitudes, whether the speaker’s own or other people’s.
One obvious, though not necessarily insuperable, difficulty is that of accounting adequately for moral argument and moral disagreement.
Source:
C L Stevenson, Ethics and Language (1944)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Emotivism
- 2.2 Does God Define the Good?
- 2.3 Ethical Emotivism (Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library Book 25)
- 2.4 Naturalism and emotivism; some aspects of moral judgments
- 2.5 Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
- 2.6 [(Ethical Emotivism)] [By (author) Stephen Satris] published on (September, 2011)
- 2.7 Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
- 2.8 Noncognitivism in Ethics (New Problems of Philosophy)
- 2.9 Emotivism Notebook, Philosophical Series, Academic Pad: Lined Paper, Artistic Journal, Teacher and Professors souvenir
- 2.10 Moods and Truths
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Emotivism
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- J.-M. Kuczynski (Author) - Mutt Rogers (Narrator)
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- 08/25/2016 (Publication Date) - PHILOSOPHYPEDIA (Publisher)
Does God Define the Good?
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Ethical Emotivism (Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library Book 25)
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- Satris, S.A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 204 Pages - 12/06/2012 (Publication Date) - Springer (Publisher)
Naturalism and emotivism; some aspects of moral judgments
- Kim, Tae-Kil (Author)
- 04/05/1962 (Publication Date) - [n.p.], [n.p.] (Publisher)
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
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- Gregg, Samuel (Author)
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- 256 Pages - 06/25/2019 (Publication Date) - Gateway Editions (Publisher)
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
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- Nussbaum, Martha C. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 770 Pages - 08/27/2001 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Noncognitivism in Ethics (New Problems of Philosophy)
- Routledge
- Schroeder, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 04/16/2010 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Emotivism Notebook, Philosophical Series, Academic Pad: Lined Paper, Artistic Journal, Teacher and Professors souvenir
- Artistry, D-cent (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 110 Pages - 02/02/2020 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
Moods and Truths
- Sheen, Fulton J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 180 Pages - 10/21/2019 (Publication Date) - Cluny Media (Publisher)
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