Meanings
nounevaluativist (plural evaluativists)
plural evaluativists
- A person who believes in or advocates evaluativism.
adjectiveevaluativist (comparative more evaluativist, superlative most evaluativist)
comparative more evaluativist · superlative most evaluativist
- Of, relating to, or advocating evaluativism.
So on a normative realist picture, there will still be norms in Gibbard’s sense, and they will play many of the same psychological roles in explaining behavior that they do in the evaluativist picture.
2009 January 27, Hartry Field, “Epistemology without metaphysics”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 249–290
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