EXPRESSIVISMO REALISTA: SOBRE UMA POSSÍVEL CONVERGÊNCIA ENTRE TEORIAS METAÉTICAS

The aim of this study is to reconstruct and analyze critically the proposal defended by David Copp in his work Morality in the Natural World - Selected Essays in Metaethics, of a meta-ethical theory called "realist-expressivism." In the first part of the paper, I will reconstruct the more general features of Copp’s ethical thinking and, more specifically, I will present the realist expressivism as a metaethical option. On the second part, I will critically evaluate the possibility of reconciling expressivism and realism showing that the practical cognitivism avoids the problems from realist-expressivism and has numerous other advantages.