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October 10, 2025The Journal of Philosophy

Saving Conceptual Role Expressivism from Defect

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This paper addresses content determination issues in conceptual role expressivism, suggesting a path forward for normative judgments and concepts.

Key Points

  • Conceptual role expressivism struggles to explain how normative concepts hold the content necessary for coherent inference.
  • The theory lacks clarity on how normative judgments embed within complex thoughts, which hampers its overall effectiveness.
  • This paper proposes that concepts have the necessary content due to their unique functions in normative contexts.
  • Fleshing out these functions may provide expressivists a robust explanation for content determination in normative frameworks.

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Sebastian Köhler (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e861a57ef2f04ca37e44b0https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2025122511
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