Expression and Indication in Ethics and Political Philosophy |
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Authors: | Crummett Dustin |
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Institution: | 1.University of Notre Dame, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA ; |
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Abstract: | We sometimes have reasons to perform actions due to what they would communicate. Those who have discussed such reasons have understood what an action ‘communicates’ as what it conventionally expresses. Brennan and Jaworski argue that when a convention ensures that expressing the appropriate thing would be costly, we should change or flout the convention. I argue that what really matters is often what attitudes we indicate rather than conventionally express, using social science to show that indicating our attitudes is often unavoidably costly, and sometimes worth the cost. I use this account to defend communicative arguments for egalitarian distributive policies. |
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