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1、Philosophers’Imprintvolume13,no.21october2013“[T]herecan,intheend,beonlyoneandthesamereason,whichmustbedis-tinguishedmerelyinitsapplication.”(Groundwork,4:391)1tisacommonplacethatethicsispractical.Intheanalytictradi-Ition,thispracticalityhasoftenbeentakentosupp
2、ortnon-cogni-ReasoninitsPracticaltivist,orexpressivist,accounts.Ifethicsistrulypractical,thethink-inggoes,thenethicaljudgmentcannotbeinthebusinessofcognizinganethicalsubjectmatter.Forsuchcognition,supposingitwereevenpossible,wouldnothavetheimmediateconnectionto
3、motivationandApplicationactionthatseemsessentialtoethics.21.AllreferencestoKantaretoKantsgesammelteSchriften,herausgegebenvonderDeutschenAkademiederWissenschaften(Berlin:WalterdeGruyter,1902–).AlltranslationsarefromTheCambridgeEditionoftheWorksofImmanuelKant,ge
4、n-eraleds.AllenW.WoodandPaulGuyer.Iwillusethefollowingabbreviationsincitations:CritiqueofPureReason—KrV;CritiqueofPracticalReason—KpV;CritiqueofthePowerofJudgment—KU;CritiqueofthePowerofJudgment,FirstIntroduction—KUEE;ProlegomenatoAnyFutureMetaphysics—P;Groundw
5、orkoftheMetaphysicsofMorals—G;TheMetaphysicsofMorals—MS;Anthropol-ogyfromaPragmaticPointofView—A;WhatDoesitMeantoOrientOneselfinThinking?—O;LecturesonMetaphysics—VM;LecturesonLogic—VL;JäscheLogic—JL;LecturesonEthics—VE;LecturesonPedagogy—VP.2.Itisincreasinglydi
6、fficulttoofferaclear,uncontroversialcharacterizationofthecognitivism/non-cognitivismdistinction.Thetraditionalcriterionoftruth-aptnessnolongerworks,sincemanyexpressivistsarehappytoembracetruth,E.SonnyElizond0solongastruthisunderstoodinadeflationaryway.Indeed,th
7、eprogramofquasi-realism,developedinvariouswaysbythetwoleadinglightsofexpres-sivism,SimonBlackburnandAllanGibbard,iscommittedtoextendingtruth,UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCountyknowledge,andthewholesuiteoftraditionallycognitiveconceptstoethicalthoughtandlanguag
8、e,expressivisticallyconstrued.What,then,distinguishesthecognitivistandthenon-cognitivist?FollowingremarksbyBlackburnandGibbard,Iwillunderstandcognitivismastheviewthatthefunc
