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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 What Is Metaethics? -- 1.1 Starting thoughts -- 1.2 The main questions and some standard positions -- 1.3 Moral psychology -- 1.4 Moral relativism again -- 1.5 Concluding remarks and a plan -- 2 Moral Realism: Mind-Independence -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Why realism? -- 2.3 Moral properties and humans -- 2.4 Objectivity and subjectivity -- 2.5 Why be an IMRealist? -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- 3 Moral Realism: Naturalism and Reductionism -- 3.1 Introduction

Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What does it mean to say that a moral claim is true? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction? Metaethics: An Introduction presents a very clear and engaging survey of the key concepts and positions in what has become one of the most exciting and influential fields of philosophy. Free from technicality and jargon, the book covers the main ideas that have shaped metaethics from the work of G. E. Moore to the latest thinking. Written specifically for

This book provides an interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position, which is to say a theory about our practice of ethics. Rowe uses this interpretation to provide some interesting and thought-provoking criticisms of themes in contemporary metaethics.

This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. From Moore's attack on ethical naturalism, A. J. Ayer's emotivism and Simon Blackburn's quasi-realism to anti-realist and best opinion accounts of moral truth and the non-reductionist naturalism of the 'Cornell realists', this book addresses all the key theories and ideas in this field. As well as revisiting the whole terrain with revised and updated guides to further reading, Miller also introduces major new sections on the revolutionary fictionalism of Richard Joyce and the hermeneutic fictionalism of Mark Kalderon. The new edition will continue to be essential reading for students, teachers and professional philosophers with an interest in contemporary metaethics. Alexander Milleris Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago.

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.

"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.