Núm. 74 (2026): Número en curso
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Cuidado, expresivistas: los juicios morales no apuntan a una verdad deflacionaria

Rodrigo Valencia-Pacheco
University of Leeds

Publicado 2025-09-30

Palabras clave

  • actitudes proposicionales,
  • apuntar a la verdad,
  • Brown,
  • creencia no representacional,
  • creencias morales,
  • deflacionismo,
  • estado similar al deseo,
  • expresivismo,
  • interpretacionismo,
  • metaética
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Cómo citar

Valencia-Pacheco, R. (2025). Cuidado, expresivistas: los juicios morales no apuntan a una verdad deflacionaria. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 74, 45-64. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v740.3093

Resumen

Brown (2022) ha argumentado recientemente que los expresivistas metaéticos deberían adoptar una concepción interpretacionista de las actitudes proposicionales. Tradicionalmente, el expresivismo ha sostenido que los juicios morales se entienden mejor como estados similares al deseo, con una función principalmente práctica de guiar y producir acciones. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los problemas para los expresivistas provienen de que los juicios morales tienen muchas propiedades similares a las creencias: son evaluables en cuanto a la verdad y epistémicamente, integrables a construcciones complejas veritativo-funcionales, etc. Si adoptasen la propuesta de Brown, los expresivistas evitarían varios de estos problemas, ya que podrían afirmar que los juicios morales son creencias, solo de un tipo no representacional. En este artículo sostengo que, aunque prometedora, esta postura tiene un problema sustancial. Un elemento crucial de la interpretación racionalizadora es que las creencias se rigen por la norma de apuntar a la verdad; sin embargo, contrario a lo que sugiere Brown, las explicaciones deflacionistas de la verdad no pueden ayudar a los expresivistas a dar cuenta de por qué los juicios morales también están sujetos a esta norma.

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