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Impassioned Belief (Paperback)
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Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of
normative judgments. According to his Ecumenical Expressivism
normative judgements are hybrid states partly constituted by
ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states.
Michael Ridge builds on a series of articles in which he has
developed this theory, but moves beyond them in the following key
respects. First, Ridge now more sharply distinguishes semantics
from meta-semantics, situating Ecumenical Expressivism firmly on
the meta-semantic side of this divide, thus enabling Ecumenical
Expressivism to accommodate a fully truth-conditional approach to
first-order semantics. Second, this distinction allows Ridge to
offer a distinctive contextualist semantic framework for normative
discourse. Contra orthodox presuppositions, a contextualist
semantics does not entail cognitivism-at least not if we carefully
heed the semantics/meta-semantics distinction. Third, because this
contextualist framework is couched in terms of standards, Ridge now
rejects his previous 'ideal advisor' approach and instead adopts a
theory couched in terms of acceptable standards of practical
reasoning. This has interesting consequences for longstanding
debates over the context-sensitivity of reasons, the so-called
'buck-passing' theory of value, and the role of principles in
normative thought ('particularism' versus 'generalism'). Fourth,
drawing on the work of Scott Soames, Ridge develops a novel theory
of normative propositions, according to which they are a certain
kind of cognitive event type. Somewhat surprisingly, this
conception allows that there can be irreducible normative
propositions, even given expressivism. Fifth, Ridge offers a novel
approach to talk of truth which enables expressivists to
accommodate truth-aptness without committing themselves to
deflationism about truth. In fact, the theory is flexible enough
that it can elegantly be combined even with a robust correspondence
conception of truth. In addition, Ridge offers an improved solution
to the dreaded 'Frege-Geach' problem (one which better preserves
the formal nature of logic than his previous account), a novel
theory of disagreement itself, a rather different sort of 'hybrid'
treatment of rationality discourse, and an independently useful
taxonomy and critical survey of the bewildering variety of other
'hybrid' approaches in the literature.
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