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Metalinguistic negotiations in moral disagreement
Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen
Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen
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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’.
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metalinguistic negation, deontic modals, contextualism, disagreement, metalinguistic denial
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2020
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Inquiry
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1-29
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Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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