In chapter 4 of M. Schroeder’s Noncognitivism in Ethics, he states that noncognitivism is the successor to the ‘traditional interest theories’ which was the focus of many philosophers for many years. His notion is to explain why speaker subjectivism, an important kind of traditional interest theory faces problems and how expressivism, a noncognitivist theory solves the problems. Noncognitivist theories are motivated in two ways, they avoid ‘core questions’ of meta-ethics and/or motivated by providing a solution that is more attractive to the motivation problem. Speaker subjectivism help escape core questions of meta-ethics. It is the theory that “moral questions are merely about our own psychologies.” For example when one is disapproving of
