Description
This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-four chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to:
- the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions
- the central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those research programs
- debates over the status of metaethics, and the appropriate methods to use in metaethical inquiry
This is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in metaethics, from those coming to it for the first time to those actively pursuing research in the field.
Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Nature and Explanatory Ambitions of Metaethics
Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett
I. Central Organizing Options in Metaethics
- Non-Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
David Enoch - Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
Peter Railton - Error Theory in Metaethics
Jonas Olson - Fictionalism in Metaethics
Richard Joyce - Metaethical Expressivism
Elisabeth Camp - Metaethical Contextualism
Alex Silk - Metaethical Relativism
Isidora Stojanovic - Realism and Objectivity
Billy Dunaway - Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics
Gideon Rosen - The Supervenience Challenge to Non-Naturalism
Pekka Väyrynen - Vagueness and Indeterminacy in Ethics
Tom Dougherty - Deontic Modals
Jennifer Carr - Thick Concepts
Debbie Roberts - The Frege-Geach Problem
Jack Woods - Hybrid Accounts of Ethical Thought and Talk
Teemu Toppinen - Conceptual Role Accounts of Meaning in Metaethics
Matthew Chrisman - The Significance of Ethical Disagreement for Theories of Ethical Thought and Talk
Gunnar Björnsson - Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism
Matthew S. Bedke - Ethical Judgment and Motivation
David Faraci and Tristram McPherson - Reasons Internalism
Errol Lord and David Plunkett - The Wrong Kind of Reasons
Howard Nye - Mind-Dependence and Moral Realism
Connie S. Rosati - Constitutivism
Michael Smith - Constructivism
Melissa Barry - Normativity and Agency
Hille Paakkunainen - Mores and Morals: Metaethics and the Social World
Kenneth Walden - The Autonomy of Ethics
Barry Maguire - Explanatory Challenges in Metaethics
Joshua Schechter - Ethical Expertise
Karen Jones and Francois Schroeter - Intuitionism in Moral Epistemology
Elizabeth Tropman - Moral Scepticism
Matt Lutz and Jacob Ross - The Epistemic Significance of Moral Disagreement
Dustin Locke - Metasemantics and Metaethics
Laura Schroeter and Francois Schroeter - Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics
Nicholas Laskowski and Stephen Finlay - Ethics and Morality
Stephen Darwall - The Varieties of Normativity
Derek Baker - Pragmatism and Metaethics
Andrew Sepielli - Feminism and Metaethics
Amia Srinivasan - Experimental Philosophy and Moral Theory
Chandra Sripada - Quasi-realism
Terence Cuneo - Metaethical Quietism
Karl Schafer and Doug Kremm - Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics
Daniel Nolan - Normative Ethics and Metaethics
Mark Schroeder
II. Central Problems and Strategies in Metaethics
III. The status and methodology of metaethics
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