Free Thinking for Expressivists

Abstract

This paper elaborates and defends an expressivist account of the claims of mindindependence embedded in ordinary moral thought. In response to objections from
Zangwill and Jenkins it is argued that the expressivist ‘internal reading' of such claims is
compatible with their conceptual status and that the only ‘external reading' available
doesn't commit expressivisists to any sort of subjectivism. In the process a ‘commitmenttheoretic' account of the semantics of conditionals and negations is defended.

Philosophical Papers Vol. 37 (2) 2008: pp. 263-287