PHIL 3225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pragmatism, Rudolf Carnap, Emotivism
9 Feb 2018
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Believed some ethical disputes may be rationally unresolvable, and resolvable by non-rational methods. Stevenson seeks a relevant de nition of the vital sense of good: must satisfy 3 conditions: Sensible disagreement - if s1 says x is good and s2 says x is not good, there must be some sort of disagreement between s1 and s2. Magnetism - if s says x is good, s must have some pro-attitude toward x. Non-empiricism - the content of the de nition of good cannot be empirical. Stevenson"s emotivist theory of good : good does not describe or denote pro-attitudinal relations, good expresses an emotion and in uences emotion, good is related to or expresses a pro-attitude. Old man (descriptive) vs. geezer (emotive: one kind of meaning has an intimate relation to dynamic use: emotive meaning. Traditional interest theory: s has a pro-attitude toward x. (description of s"s attitude)
