ABSTRACT
Sellars’s account of moral judgment is broadly expressivist; and such accounts face well-known problems, such as the embedding problem. Sellars develops a very sophisticated logic of intentions that foreshadows similar attempts by authors like Mark Schroeder by half a century. In this chapter, I explain the key features of Sellars’s logic of intentions and demonstrate how it provides us the tools to solve not only classical problems for expressivism (such as the embedding problem and the problem of negation) but also contemporary challenges to expressivist accounts (such as Schroeder’s challenge that such accounts cannot handle tense and modal operators). I argue that while the basic insights of Sellars’s account are sound, various modifications and extensions are required to his account so that we can have a fully satisfying intentional logic, one that is able to reconstruct all of the required deontic notions and relations.
