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Ethical non-naturalism and normative properties / William J. FitzPatrick -- Naturalistic metaethics at half price / Joshua Gert -- In defense of moral error theory / Jonas Olson -- The myth of moral fictionalism / Terence Cuneo and Sean Christy -- Expressivism, inferentialism and the theory of meaning / Matthew Chrisman -- How not to avoid wishful thinking / Mark Schroeder -- Internal reasons and the motivating intuition / Julia Markovits -- Beyond wrong reasons : the buck-passing account of value / Ulrike Heuer -- A wrong turn to reasons / Pekka Väyrynen -- Shmagency revisited / David Enoch -- The authority of social norms / Nicholas Southwood -- Moral epistemology / Alison Hills -- Aesthetics and particularism / Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge

Metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse and is often traced to G.E. Moore work. These essays represent the most up to date work in the field, after and in some cases directly inspired by Moore

Metaethical questions have occupied some of the greatest philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hume and Nietzsche, amongst many others, have all written on issues about the nature of moral thinking and moral practice. In the last 40 years, interest in metaethics has increased greatly, driven by developments in other areas of philosophy - principally, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophical psychology. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best younger philosophers working in this field. Topics covered include: the nature of practical reasonsnaturalist and non-naturalist approaches to metaethicsexpressivist accounts of moral language, aesthetic, epistemic and social normativity.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only periodical publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship in the field. Its broad purview includes work at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. OSME provides an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those. who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here. - ;The contents of

"Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides a solid foundation in metaethics for advanced undergraduates by introducing a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles involve moral disagreement, reference, moral epistemology, metaphysics, and moral psychology. From there, author Mark van Roojen discusses the many positions in metaethics that people will take in reaction to these puzzles. Van Roojen asks several essential questions of his readers, namely: What is metaethics? Why study it? How does one discuss metaethics, given its inherently controversial nature? Each chapter closes with questions, both for reading comprehension and further discussion, and annotated suggestions for further reading."--Taylor & Francis website.

1. A brief introduction -- 2. A subject matter for ethics? -- 3. Moral epistemology and the empirical underdetermination of ethical theory -- 4. The practicality of morality and the humean conception of reason and motivation -- 5. Error theory -- 6. Simple subjectivism -- 7. The cognitivist heirs of simple subjectivism : ideal observers and ideal agents -- 8. Noncognitivist heirs of simple subjectivism -- 9. Fictionalism -- 10. Externalist backlash -- 11. Scientific naturalism I : Cornell realism -- 12. Scientific naturalism II : moral functionalism and network analyses -- 13. Nonnaturalism and antireductionism -- 14. Odds, ends, and morals.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only periodical publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship in the field. Its broad purview includes work at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. OSME provides an excellent basis for understanding recent developments. in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here. - ; Oxford Studies

AbstractContrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of others (including organisms and systems in the natural world) may well be given greater weight in one's ethical deliberations if theory has made clear that the good to be promoted is ontologically independent of one's own good.