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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Friedrich Waismann |
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Subtitle of host publication | The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy |
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Editors | Stewart Shapiro, Dejan Makovec |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Chapter | 8 |
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Pages | 47-66 |
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ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-25008-9 |
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ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-25007-2 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 29 Sep 2019 |
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Name | History of Analytic Philosophy |
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Abstract
Constantine Sandis takes on a very first evaluation of Waismann’s essay and shows that Waismann’s discussion of the scientific constrains on ethics is very much not anti-scientistic. Unlike Wittgenstein, Waismann does not dismiss morality as nonsense. Sandis associates Waismann’s view with expressivism, similar to the emotivism defended by his contemporary C.L. Stevenson, and points out a shared motivation with Derek Parfit’s more recent On What Matters. In an existentialist fashion Waismann invokes one’s freedom and responsibility in opting for different ethical systems, once one stops asking for moral truth and starts to choose and decide. In a detailed criticism of Waismann’s essay Sandis asks what our choosing and deciding could be based on if not in turn a normative discourse based on reasons.
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