caa a22 4500 445359447 CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10892-011-9106-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10892-011-9106-2 Strandberg Caj Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 200, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden aut The Pragmatics of Moral Motivation [Elektronische Daten] [Caj Strandberg] One of the most prevalent and influential assumptions in metaethics is that our conception of the relation between moral language and motivation provides strong support to internalism about moral judgments. In the present paper, I argue that this supposition is unfounded. Our responses to the type of thought experiments that internalists employ do not lend confirmation to this view to the extent they are assumed to do. In particular, they are as readily explained by an externalist view according to which there is a pragmatic and standardized connection between moral utterances and motivation. The pragmatic account I propose states that a person's utterance of a sentence according to which she ought to ϕ conveys two things: the sentence expresses, in virtue of its conventional meaning, the belief that she ought to ϕ, and her utterance carries a generalized conversational implicature to the effect that she is motivated to ϕ. This view also makes it possible to defend cognitivism against a well-known internalist argument. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Cognitivism nationallicence Externalism nationallicence Generalized conversational implicature nationallicence Paul Grice nationallicence Metaethics nationallicence Moral motivation nationallicence Non-cognitivism nationallicence The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2011-12-01), 341-369 1382-4554 15:4<341 2011 15 10892 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-011-9106-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-011-9106-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Strandberg Caj Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 200, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2011-12-01), 341-369 1382-4554 15:4<341 2011 15 10892 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer