Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Avowal under oppression
View through CrossRef
AbstractLeading expressivist proposals characterize the mental state expressed in the making of a normative judgment solely in terms of intrinsic, psychological dispositions. As a result, they fail to capture a subset of the normative judgments that agents can and do make; they miss the way that external factors can influence what the making of a normative judgment looks like. This problem can be seen most plainly in the context of systemic oppression. Intuitively, one can make a normative judgment that conflicts with the oppressive ideas one has previously been conditioned to endorse, but expressivism seems to deny that this is possible. The expressivist's inability to count these avowals made under oppression as genuine normative judgments makes expressivism deficient as a metaethical theory.
Title: Avowal under oppression
Description:
AbstractLeading expressivist proposals characterize the mental state expressed in the making of a normative judgment solely in terms of intrinsic, psychological dispositions.
As a result, they fail to capture a subset of the normative judgments that agents can and do make; they miss the way that external factors can influence what the making of a normative judgment looks like.
This problem can be seen most plainly in the context of systemic oppression.
Intuitively, one can make a normative judgment that conflicts with the oppressive ideas one has previously been conditioned to endorse, but expressivism seems to deny that this is possible.
The expressivist's inability to count these avowals made under oppression as genuine normative judgments makes expressivism deficient as a metaethical theory.
Related Results
Groups and Oppression
Groups and Oppression
Oppression is a form of injustice that occurs when one social group is subordinated while another is privileged, and oppression is maintained by a variety of different mechanisms i...
Towards a Theory of Oppression
Towards a Theory of Oppression
Despite the concern with oppressive systems and practices there have been few attempts to analyse the general concept of oppression. Recently, Iris Marion Young has argued that it ...
Review of "Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism," by Noble, S. U. (2018). New York, New York: NYU Press.
Review of "Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism," by Noble, S. U. (2018). New York, New York: NYU Press.
Read and considered thoughtfully, Safiya Umoja Noble's
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
is devastating. It reduces to rubble th...
FEMALE SEXUAL OPPRESSION: A LIBERATION THROUGH ART
FEMALE SEXUAL OPPRESSION: A LIBERATION THROUGH ART
[EN] This final degree begins with the aim of showing the oppression to which women are subjected in our society. Analyzing primarily the Middle Ages and the contemporary ages as t...
ABSTRACTION, IDEALIZATION, AND OPPRESSION
ABSTRACTION, IDEALIZATION, AND OPPRESSION
Abstract: Feminists, critical race scholars, and other social‐justice theorists sometimes object to “abstraction” in liberal normative theory. Arguing that oppression affects indi...
Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry
Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry
The idea of leisure is essential to understanding how laboring-class poets conceived of themselves as writers, what they imagined the activity of poetic composition to be, a...
Gender, Free Will, and Woman-to-Woman Sexual Assault in Service Provider Discourses
Gender, Free Will, and Woman-to-Woman Sexual Assault in Service Provider Discourses
Although still less recognized than man-to-woman sexual assault, awareness of woman-to-woman sexual assault has grown sufficiently over the past three decades that we should no lon...
Remembering the short stories of Yvonne Vera: A postcolonial and feminist reading of Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals?
Remembering the short stories of Yvonne Vera: A postcolonial and feminist reading of Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals?
The Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is one of the most important writers to emerge from the African continent over the last two decades. Although she has received widespread critical...