Toh, Kevin;
Schroeter, François;
Schroeter, Laura;
(2022)
The Limits of Metalinguistic Negotiation: The Role of Shared Meaning in Normative Debate.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
(In press).
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Abstract
According to philosophical orthodoxy, the parties to moral or legal disputes genuinely disagree only if their use of key normative terms in the dispute express the same meaning. Recently, however, this orthodoxy has been challenged. According to an influential alternative view, genuine moral and legal disagreements should be understood as metalinguistic negotiations over which meaning a given term should have. In this paper, we argue that the shared meaning view is motivated by much deeper considerations than its recent critics recognize, and that much would be lost in opting for the explanation of normative disputes as metalinguistic negotiations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Limits of Metalinguistic Negotiation: The Role of Shared Meaning in Normative Debate |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/journa... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Disagreement; metaethics; legal philosophy; shared meanings; metalinguistic negotiation |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154099 |
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