ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the core motivations for thinking that there is some necessary connection between ethical judgment and motivation, and exploring the consequences of a strong account of the connection, namely: Simple Internalism. It then explores the evidence for and against this simple view. The chapter also explores three influential ways of modifying the simple view. It examines the case for denying the existence of a necessary connection between ethical judgment and motivation. The chapter briefly considers several issues about the relationship between mind and language that complicate ordinary ways of discussing this connection. It explains how the account of the connection can be used in an argument for a distinctive, non-cognitivist account of the nature of ethical judgment. Finally, the chapter introduces and explains some of the central assumptions about motivation and the explanation of action that are required for this argument to work.
