Being For
Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism
Schroeder, Mark University of Southern California
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953465-4
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534654.003.0011
Mark Schroeder
This chapter explores how biforcated attitude semantics might be exploited in order to develop nondescriptivist treatments in other philosophical domains. A strategy for applying biforcated attitude semantics to an arbitrary domain is developed, as well as a toy expressivist theory of indicative conditionals. A more sophisticated account of truth is developed, which predicts that ‘P’ and ‘it is true that P’ are equivalent but have different semantic contents, and on which ‘true’ is nondescriptive, corresponding to no property. It is shown, further, how such an account can be exploited to solve expressivist problems about disagreement and validity.
Keywords: indicative conditionals, truth, bifurcated attitudes, toy expressivist theory,
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534654.003.0011
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Part I The Semantic Program of Expressivism
Part II Expressivists' Problems with Logic
Part III Descriptive Language
Part IV Extensions