Metalinguistic negotiations in moral disagreement
Journal article
Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen. (2020). Metalinguistic negotiations in moral disagreement. Inquiry. pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1850336
Authors | Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen |
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Abstract | The problem of moral disagreement has been presented as an objection to contextualist semantics for ‘ought’, since it is not clear that contextualism can accommodate or give a convincing gloss of such disagreement. I argue that independently of our semantics, disagreements over ‘ought’ in non-cooperative contexts are best understood as indirect metalinguistic disputes, which is easily accommodated by contextualism. If this is correct, then rather than posing a problem for contextualism, the data from moral disagreements provides some reason to adopt a semantics that allows contextual variance in the meanings of ‘ought’. |
Keywords | metalinguistic negation; deontic modals; contextualism; disagreement; metalinguistic denial |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Inquiry |
Journal citation | pp. 1-29 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 0020-174X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1850336 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85097069301 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-29 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 02 Dec 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 11 Jun 2020 |
Deposited | 08 Jul 2021 |
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