ABSTRACT
Expressivists differ in their moral psychology from friends of besires, and are usually counted as friends of Hume. A full account of values about what to desire, will and feel will credit them with a rational constitution that reflects both their passive and active directions of fit. For the natural construal of cases where we enact our values, according to cautious expressivism, would be that those values find expression in distinct states of desire, which we act on, combined with relevant beliefs about our situation. Any form of internalism that's true to the phenomenology of valuing needs to allow for cases where we fall from grace, and yet our values survive with their content intact, despite distortion of their motivational grip on us. Smith defends as a truth about a necessary, defeasible connection between valuing and desiring; but the defense ensures that evaluative belief is not construed as intrinsically practical.
