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Moral subjectivism and the semantics of disagreements 1 1 This work is the result of research funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq, through resources obtained through the Call CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT No 18/2021.

Subjetivismo moral e a semântica dos desacordos

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I discuss which semantic theory moral subjectivists should adopt. Moral subjectivism is understood broadly to include all theories according to which moral sentences are truth-apt, at least sometimes true, and made true by the mental attitudes of certain relevant agent or set of agents. Due to the breadth of this definition, an initial concern is whether a unified semantic approach is able to accommodate all varieties of subjectivism. I argue that it is. I then proceed to analyse the main semantic theories for moral sentences as they apply to the standard issue of moral disagreements. I conclude in favour of so-called Non-Indexical Contextualism.

Keywords:
moral subjectivism; moral disagreement; moral semantics; moral relativism; moral contextualism

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