| The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism. |
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| He was no fan of the writer, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness. |
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| Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness. |
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| If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgement require the motivation not present in the amoralist. |
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| On this view, known as emotivism, right and wrong are relative to individual preferences rather than to social standards. |
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| This doctrine, known as emotivism, illustrates the positivists' divorce of ethics from science and once again reflects an old empiricist theme. |
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| There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory. |
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| Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism. |
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| Stressing this point helps distinguish a sophisticated Humean position from the simplistic emotivism of early twentieth century moral philosophy. |
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| To a somewhat lesser extent he examines issue of metaethics, including intuitionism, emotivism, and prescriptivism. |
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| In such logical analysis ethics could be dismissed as a species of emotivism. |
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| Was the intensity of their emotivism an outgrowth of deep-seated Hispanic piety? |
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| Egoism, emotivism, and intuitionism have been suggested as guides to moral conduct, but their soundness as moral guides also has been challenged. |
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| I am arguing only that emotion is essential to moral reasoning, and that is so whether emotivism or some more rationalist theory of morals is correct. |
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| Another important meta-ethical theory is known as emotivism or non-cognitivism. Emotivists... claim that all ethical statements are literally meaningless. |
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