On standing one's ground

Analysis 74 (3):422-431 (2014)
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Abstract

I provide a positive expressivist account of the permissibility of ‘standing one’s ground’ in some cases of moral conflict, based in part on an illustrative analogy with political disputes. This account suffices to undermine Enoch’s recent argument against expressivism

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Neil Sinclair
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The View From Nowhere.Thomas Nagel - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism.David Enoch - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
The View from Nowhere.Thomas Nagel - 1986 - Behaviorism 15 (1):73-82.
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