Deflating the many attitudes problem

Derek BAKER

doi:10.1093/pq/pqab011

Deflating the many attitudes problem

Derek BAKER^*

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Lingnan University

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Abstract

Attitudinal embeddings, such as ‘I hope that murder is wrong’ or ‘she is glad that eating meat is not wrong’ are a less substantial problem for expressivists than is standardly thought. If expressivists are entitled to talk of normative beliefs, they can explain what it is to for an attitude to be semantically related to a normative content in terms of being functionally related to a belief with a normative content.

Original language	English
Article number	pqab011
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
Journal	The Philosophical Quarterly
Volume	72
Issue number	1
Early online date	19 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab011
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

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Funding

The research appearing in this paper was fully funded by a General Research Fund grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR, China (Grant number LU13601218).

Keywords

expressivism
quasirealism
Frege-Geach problem
many attitudes problem

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Deflating the many attitudes problem

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