emotivist

As an emotivist, I don't think there is much to the idea of "evil" and I think we should only think differently of a person that kills someone than a rock that falls on someone to the extent that it is useful to do so.

Neuroscience: Don't Be Intimidated, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Whether this is sufficient to count such theories as emotivist or non-cognitivist is open to dispute, but many proponents of such views do call themselves non-cognitivists and emotivists.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Sincere utterance requires motivation, that's part and parcel of this sort of emotivist theory.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Morality is thus neither objective or subjective for the emotivist–it is without any meaning at all, a sort of vague ontological fiction that is merely a symbol for our emotional responses to certain events.

quiz: the sublime philosophical crap test « raincoaster 2007

Science is never concerned with whether a particular state of affairs is moral or right or good–and an emotivist feels much the same way.

quiz: the sublime philosophical crap test « raincoaster 2007

This is not the criticism that sank the emotivist theories of Ayer and Stevenson.

Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

We are now in a position to understand Russell's general strategy as a polemicist for moral reform and its relation to his emotivist meta-ethic.

Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

Thus the emotivist analysis of the moral terms is viciously circular.

Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption: A test of an emotivist account of moral vegetarianism.

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption: A test of an emotivist account of moral vegetarianism.

Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006