How Emotivism Survives Immoralists, Irrationality, and Depression

Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (3):327-344 (2002)
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Argues that emotivism is compatible with cases where we seem to lack motivation to act according to our moral opinions.

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The moral problem.Michael Smith - 1994 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
Moral reasons.Jonathan Dancy - 1993 - Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
Wise Choices, Apt Feelings.Allan Gibbard - 1990 - Ethics 102 (2):342-356.

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