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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"expressivism"”.
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… of meta-ethics and normative ethics by combining expressivism with Kantianism and utilitarianism. The project of this thesis is to defend Hare’s theory in its most ambitious form. This means not just showing how the expressivist, Kantian and utilitarian elements are consistent, or that the three …
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Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
… on the one hand, and sophisticated forms of expressivism on the other. This thesis calls into question whether such an aspiration can be met. The approach is twofold. First, the thesis argues that relaxed realism can meet various of its objectives better by relying on theoretical resources …
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Rationality without representation
… of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for why two mental states are inconsistent need not presuppose that such states are representational-that they have, in the jargon, truth-conditions. I use this to provide a …
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Analyticity as Expressive of Monotonic Material Inference
… by appropriating Robert Brandom's logical expressivism. I argue that statements such as 'x is analytic' should be interpreted as bits of logical expressivist vocabulary explicating the implicit material proprieties of treating the inferences appropriately substitutable for 'x' as materially …
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Words and Doing Things: What Meanings Can Do and the Role of Motivational States in Determining Meaning
… My second paper, “Problems for Metasemantic Expressivism”, explores the question of whether the semantic values standardly assigned to normative expressions can help explain the special connection that normative thought and discourse seem to have to non-cognitive mental states: states like …
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Pedagogy of the Amused: An Exploration of Writing Education for a Critical Sense of Humor
… pedagogical approaches to composition of expressivism, social constructivism, critical theory, and posthumanism.
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The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric
… others, have moved the discussions away from expressivism and, therefore, from the writer's voice, as well. Treating the expressivist voice as a single historical moment, I tease out a much broader conceptualization that follows an oscillation between an attachment to and a distrust of the …
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Non-Representationalism and Metaphysics
… non-representational theories is metaethical expressivism, the view that ethical language and thought is best understood not as representing or describing ethical features of the world, but as expressing our attitudes towards it. Other theories apply similar ideas to other kinds of language …
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Recovering a "Lost" Genre: The Essay
… reasons rhetoric and composition has neglected expressivism, and I argue that the discipline should focus more attention on issues of craft--particularly psychic distance, a concept that I contend offers a valuable way for writers to think about their prose essayistically.In chapter three, …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… explanation of authority. According to Neo-Expressivism, self-ascriptions are authoritative insofar as they are acts that put ones mental states on display for others, whether or not these mental states are also known by the self-ascriber with privilege and peculiarity. However, I do not …
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Moral Reasons Arbitrariness
… own reasons.</p><p>Gibbard's noncognitivist norm-expressivism succumbs to moral reasons arbitrariness because it leaves moral reasons as expressions of a human activity of accepting a system of norms. Gibbard's appeals to a sophisticated evolutionary psychology fail to provide the needed …
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Lubanga, child soldiering and the philosophy of international law
… ICC penality is the expressive function of law (expressivism). The few cases of mass crime the ICC can prosecute can achieve primarily more realistic aims of expression of global or ‘cosmopolitan’ norms, norm internalisation and the reinforcement of collectivism international law and society. …
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VAGABONDS AND THE VIRTUAL: IDENTITY, ECONOMICS AND ETHICS IN THE GENRE OF DIGITAL TRAVEL WRITING
While the genre of travel writing has been popular with authors and audiences over centuries, developments in new media, social media and public use genres have caused an adaptation of the genre in the digital space. This genre, as it exists, claims two antecedents: first, the traditional and …
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The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing
… disengagement. Perhaps most importantly, the expressivism that gives us positive cause to articulate our own unique understanding of the voice of nature within us is completely inverted in the world of the Philokalia, which is much more concerned with our awareness of the negativity of the …
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
<p>Within the past two decades, theorists have begun to look back to the classical rhetorical past for answers to modern dilemmas in composition teaching. Several textbooks have been published that focus their teaching of college composition on the classical tradition. While the movement to …