Ayer and Stevenson advocated ethical emotivisms, non-cognitivist understandings of the meanings of moral terms and functions of moral judgments. I argue that their reasons for ethical emotivisms suggest analogous epistemological emotivisms. Epistemological emotivism importantly undercuts any epistemic support Ayer and Stevenson offered for ethical emotivism. This is because if epistemic emotivi...

The first part of this paper briefly presents the phenomenon post-truth, which is then confronted with emotivism, a position 20th-century ethics or metaethics that ascribes an emotive and evocative meaning to ethical judgements, rather than descriptive one. second shows theories two main representatives view, namely A.J. Ayer Charles Stevenson. third focuses on objections primarily presented by...

In a performance culture, the individual who manages to be best, is glorified. The rest become marginalised or even excluded from community. right define what best often in hands of few, and most these criteria have roots form emotivism. are thereby weakly defined, bendable favour those seem taken control. response aim being Lennart Nørreklit develops conceptual framework for good, language gam...

Arguments are presented that paintings are unable to induce basic psychobiological emotions because they do not powerfully engage with spectators’ intimate associativememory systems. However, it is suggested that art installations containing properties subsumable under the classical concept of the sublime (physical grandeur, rarity, novelty, an association with beauty and with biologically sign...